This article considers that in the process of Middle Route Project of SouthNorth Water Transfer, importance must be attached to the ecological environment protection in the headwater area--Hanjiang Basin. It discusses not only the emigration region, the reservoir area, the project construction and the problem arised from water resources utilization and the ecological environment protection, but also the soil and water erosion, the flood and drought, the pollution and the ecological environment in the whole drainage basin. It also puts forward the countermeasures about the ecological environment protection in the drainage basin.
The paper discusses the implementing of the magnificent transbasin Middle Route Project of South North Water Transfer, water resources in the middle reaches of Yangtze River should be optimized utilized. It puts forward that the research should concentrate on the problem of sustainable development in Middle Route Project water source area, the problem of optimized transfer of water resources in the Yangtze Valley and the problem of water resources development and utilization and ecological environment protection, etc.
