The soil erosion of the upper and middle reaches of Yangtze basin is very serious, and threatened the sustainable development of the whole basin society, ecology and economy. Though the three big engineering measures, which are the comprehensive control engineering of the Yangtze Rive basin like the protection engineering of natural forest, and the transformation engineering from farmland into forest or grass land, have controled soil erosion to some extent, it still has many limitations and shortcomings. Because it is very important to restore soil erosion of the Yangtze basin, these limitations are analyzed carefully, and a series of new model for the ecological restoration of soil erosion of the Yangtze River basin are put forward, such as taxing ecological, developing eco-economical agriculture, implementing ecological emigrant, enlarging ecological import and developing ecological tourism.