The research area is located on Jiagu hillside of Lianyungang City

Jiangsu Province. Soil there is granitic gneiss gravelly sandy loam. The characteristics of sediment yield and its influencing factors were analyzed based on rainfall and soil erosion data under six kinds of typical land uses in the past 20 years. Results showed that: (1) The annual sediment yield in different land utilizations increased with the annual rainfall amount

except terrace. (2) The annual sediment yield in different landuse types had significant differences. The land use types

in order of decreasing average annual soil loss

were the slope farming area

standard area

commercial forest area

grassland area

timber forest area and terrace area. Under different landuse patterns

terrace was most effective in controlling soil erosion and contrarily

slope farming area had the largest soil erosion. (3) Under different land uses

the relationship between sediment yield on hillside and rainfall erosivity could be expressed by a power function

with a high correlation coefficient reaching extremely significant level.