Jiangxi Province is one of the provinces suffering serious soil and water loss. Along with the economic development , soil and water loss becomes one of the major factors which rest rict the sustainable development of lo-cal society and economy. In this paper , the situations of soil erosion in 1987 , 1996 and 2000 in J iangxi Province were introduced , and the reasons for the change in soil erosion in more than ten years were analyzed. As a result ,the current situation of the province’s soil erosion remains very rigorous , and soil and water conservation work is still heavily loaded though the exasperating trend of soil erosion has been suppressed , and ecological environment has been developing in a good direction.