[Objective] The new progress of soil and water conservation researches and the current status of rural place creation in Taiwan from 2010 to 2019 were summarized in order to discuss the natural engineering design concepts and guidelines suitable for the environmental conditions of hillsides, to serve the social and economic revitalization of rural areas, and to provide references for related researches and similar area development.[Methods] By comprehensively combing through relevant research literature published mainly in the past 10 years, sorting out many ideas, and summarizing the results according to some relevant surveys, new research content on the core issues of Taiwan's ecological engineering and soil and water conservation science, as well asrural regeneration and place creation progress were reviewed in detail.[Results] Rural place creation should focus on community growth, adhere to both hardware and software construction, and incorporate these projects into local governments' joint implementation strategies to expand participation and cooperation mechanisms. Soil and water conservation can create a good ecological environment for the countryside and is fundamental work in rural place creation. Policies to promote place creation, plan for college students to travel back to the countryside, soil and water conservation, and ecological engineering implementation are important guarantees for rural place creation and regional ecological security.[Conclusion] By advocating green lifestyles, enhancing the public's awareness of autonomous disaster prevention, constructing a strategic layout for green development, advancing industrial ecology and eco-industrialization, and implementing rural regeneration strategies, will effectively promote the rural place creation.