Abstract: The identification of land-use conflicts is of great significance for maintaining the balance between ecological protection and the socio-economic development in oases in arid areas. Based on the data of land use status in 2000, 2010, and 2018 of Urumqi City-a valley oasis in the Urumqi River Basin, this paper constructs a comprehensive measurement model of land-use conflicts and further analyzes the distribution characteristics of the spatial pattern of land-use conflicts using the methods of spatial autocorrelation and cold/hot spot analysis. The results are as follows. ① The total area of land-use conflicts has increased year by year, and the area of lands with different land-use conflict levels is in the order of no conflict > moderate conflicts > mild conflicts > severe conflicts. Meanwhile, land-use conflicts are more liable to occur in grassland, cultivated land, construction land, and woodland. ② There is a significant spatial positive correlation between land-use conflicts in the study area, and the land-use conflicts are highly concentrated in terms of space. According to the analysis of cold and hot spots, it is found that from 2000 to 2018, the hot spots of land-use conflicts migrated from the northern part of the central urban area and southwestern parts to the eastern and southern parts of the urban area, with the distribution scope narrowing. In comparison, the cold spots of the land-use conflicts mainly concentrated inside the central urban area and the eastern and southern mountainous areas. ③ There is a positive spatial correlation between the land use degree and the land-use conflicts in the study area. C₀/(C₀+C) increased from 0.21 to 0.49 during 2000—2018, indicating that the spatial correlation weakened and the land-use conflicts are increasingly affected by random factors.