Soil conservation and construction of the protecting-forest system on the upper reaches of Yangtze River, being related to the control and safty on the lower reaches for long time
It is accounted that in 1982 the soil erosion area in Yangtze Riverwatershed has been raisen to 739,400km~2,being amounted to 41% of the totalarea and 1 times more than that in 1957.Although the annual sedimentload observed at Yichang station is 600 million tons,the total soil loss ofthe whole watershed can reach 2 billion ton,much more serious thanthat in the watershed of Yellow River. Soil conservation and protecting-forest system is connected with the social-economic development, thethrowing of poorness and obtaining of riching as well as the long-termbenefit in improvement of ecological environment of the region, it is alsorelated to the control and safty for long time of the wide area at middle-lower reaches.