Abstract: Due to the repeated persistent scour-and-fill in the Yellow River and frequent human activities, the native vegetation in Zhengzhou Yellow-River Wetland Nature Reserve suffered heavy destroy. It is very important and urgent to carry out revegetation. Based on the field inventory of vegetation's current situation and existent issues, the paper puts forward the revegetation principles, including priority of protection and treatment according to law, natural recovery as the major measure with the support of artificial construction, consideration of local conditions as well as matching sites with proper vegetation, wise utilization and sustainable development, and overall planning with many measures in the revegetation project, and brings forward three modes including natural recovery, artificially natural recovery and artificial ecology restoration.

Key words: Zhengzhou Yellow-River Wetland Nature Reserve, revegetation, principles, modes