After the important instruction was published by the general secretary, Mr. Jiang Zemin, the following significant measures have been taken in the Ministry of Water Resources to enhance the control of soil and water loss: the “State Plan for Soil and Water Conservation and Ecological Environment Construction“ has been revised and edited, institutes for seven rivers administration, such as the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and others, and all provinces and municipalities have been organized to work out or edit plans of soil and water conservation and ecological environment construction for their regions; the law and regulation systems and law enforcement and supervision systems are further improved and established, the division of the key prevention region of soil and water loss, key supervision region and key harnessing region are noticed to public; the investment is increased greatly, and the investment to soil and water conservation from the central government in 1998 was doubled, enthusiasm for soil and water conservation and ecological construction is rising to an unprecedented height everywhere; the “Management Ways for Harnessing and Developing the four types of wasteland in countryside by Ministry of Water Resources”has been published, the project of “ten, hundred and thousand” examples have overall commenced. Up to the end of 1998, there have been accumulative 780 000 km 2 of area of soil and water loss under control in all over the country, sediment decreased by soil and water conservation measures is 1.5 billion tons every year with increased water storage capacity of 25 billion m 3. After the important instruction was published by the general secretary, Mr. Jiang Zemin, the following significant measures have been taken in the Ministry of Water Resources to enhance the control of soil and water loss: the “State Plan for Soil and Water Conservation and Ecological Environment Construction ”has been revised and edited, institutes for seven rivers administration, such as the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and others, and all provinces and municipalities have been organized to work out or edit plans of soil and water conservation and ecological environment construction for their regions; the law and regulation systems and law enforcement and supervision systems are further improved and established, the division of the key prevention region of soil and water loss, key supervision region and key harnessing areas are noticed to public; the investment is increased greatly, and the investment to soil and water conservation from the central government in 1998 was double d, enthusiasm for soil and water conservation and ecological construction is rising to an unprecedented height everywhere; the “Management Ways for Harnessing and Developing the four types of wasteland in countryside by Ministry of Water Resources” has been published, the project of "ten, Up to the end of 1998, there have been accumulative 780 000 km 2 of area of ​​soil and water loss under control in all over the country, sediment decreased by soil and water conservation measures is 1.5 billion tons every year with increased water storage capacity of 25 billion m 3