Liu Jing     Zhang Yangzheng    Wang Ning
Yellow River Shandong Bureau  Jinan  250011

Abstract: Shandong Province is seriously lack of water resources and the Yellow River is its main guest water resource. The area along Shandong Yellow River is the main producing region of national high-quality grain. With the issue of a series of favourable policies for farms in recent years, the enthusiasm for peasants to plant grain has improved unprecedentedly, so the grain cultivated area is increasing constantly, and the demand for the water resource is enlarging. Whereas with the economic and social development of the provinces in the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River basin, the water entering Shandong is reducing constantly. Therefore, the development of water-saving irrigation and the increase of the Yellow River irrigated area are basic ways to solve the shortage of water resource along Shandong Yellow River, also is the strategic choice to ensure the economic and social sustainable development, which is meaningful to alleviate the increasing gap between supply and demand of water resources. This paper takes Xiaokaihe irrigated area as an example to analyze and put forward some measures for agricultural water-saving irrigation.

Key words: the Yellow River irrigated area   Water-saving irrigation