Abstract：Ecological restoration is a kind of science which studies the restoration and management of the eco-system,and it has become a hot point all over the world now.Recently the word "restoration" has been used as a term of generality including reconstruction,rebuilding,transformation,replanting and so on.Generally it refers to improve and rebuild the degraded ecosystem so as to be of value to utilize again and renew its biological potentiality.The principle of the ecological restoration includes the law of nature,the technological principle of social and economic and the aesthetic principle.Management of small watershed for soil and water conservation in our country is a model of ecological restoration by project.It should be implemented with the guidance of eco-economic system theory.And the relations between the reproduction of population,natural and(economic) should be correctly handeld to really reach the harmonious coexistence between human and nature.The method of management of small watershed for soil and water conservation is a method of systematic engineering,including comprehensive investigation and systemic diagnosis,model development and management planning,system of prevention and controlling and model designed,organization and operating mechanism,etc.The soil and water conservation of our country needs urgently pioneering and innovation because innovation is its soul.Only when the two kind of deflections in the work of soil and water conservation are corrected,(developmnet) policy is carried out that people coexist with nature harmoniously in an all-round way and social(demands) of the local people are combined with the work of soil and water conservation,will the grand goal of beautifying the landscape come true.
2006, Vol. 4 
