In this study, Dalateqi County in Inner Magnolia which stands for highly intensity human activity and Chengduo County in Qinghai Province which is for low intensity human activity were selected as study areas. The data on land use and remote image in 2014-2015 and 2017 were collected. The soil loss was calculated using Chinese soil loss equation. The variation of land use and soil loss was analyzed. The differences in soil loss and land use were compared based on the two period land use results (LUR) and on the two period remote image variation results (IVR). The results showed that variation of soil loss based on the LUR was more obvious than that on the IVR. The area variation of soil loss based on the LUR was 64 times (Chengduo) and 94 times (Dalateqi) of that on the IVR. The area variation of soil loss based on the IVR was more reasonable, which reflected the true variation. The area variation of soil loss was far smaller than that of land use. The results will provide the technique support for the evaluation method on the incoming annual variation of soil loss according to the "soil loss inventory plan in China (2018-2022)".