Soil and water conservation planning is a applied science which based on the basic theory of soil and water conservation, it combines the thought and method of management theory, systematic principle and policy decision theory into a whole. Based on the sustained development, the application of soil and water conservator measures should be disposed in a systematic and organic way which not only suit to the local conditions, but also suit to the different period. The differentia between plan region and service object determine its stage character. The category of plan and its relation with the ecnomic development have been enhanced rapidly day by day. The planning for lage-scale development projects area have been become as the main body of soil and water conservation plan. The information collection method, as well as technology of prediction and policy decision need a new breakthrough, The orientation of planning technique development is the quantitative and dynamic analysis method.