Abstract: On the basis of landscape ecology theory, the outstanding characteristics of the North Farming-pastoral Zone are the landscape of extensively cultivated farmland and villages scattered across grassland (and sometimes forestland) landscapes in China. Optimized eco-productive paradigm of the North Farming-pastoral Zone attempts to build optimized land-use and spatial distribution patterns. As a case study, hilly ecosystems in Linxi County in Inner Mongolia are divided into three agricultural and eco-economic regions with different integral functions based the characteristics of the eco-environment and social economy synthetically. Based on demand for land and optimized farmer production development modes in three regions, optimized eco-management land use pattern paradigm is proposed for Linxi hilly-mountains ecosystem. This is based on optimization principles and spatial land use allocation restrictions. River valley plain agricultural and eco-economic regions should be developed for intensive-efficient agricultural production zones. Low hilly-mountain agricultural and eco-economic regions like ecotones with production and other ecological sites should be positioned in the husbandry-food development mode. Mid-mountains ecosystem should be put in fruit-ecotourism and habitat-conservation areas and farmers emigrated to river valley plains and low hilly-mountain regions.