黄河是世界上最难治理的一条河流。随着黄河流域经济社会的发展，流域固有的矛盾和管理上的缺陷更为突出，通过高层次立法规范和调整行业之间、流域与区域之间以及各地区、各部门利益之间的错综复杂利益关系日益迫切。但是，对经济快速增长的追求，使得人类活动应与流域自然特性相适应的管理理念难以深入人心，立法上首先要确立的流域管理机构的地位和职责难成共识，加以立法权分配的不合理、社会法制水平的限制、理论研究的不足等因素的影响，有关方面多年呼吁的黄河法因而迟迟未进入国家立法程序。只有提高全社会对黄河法立法重要性的认识，改革立法体制，加强立法的前期研究，总结成功经验，明确立法的指导思想和原则，才能取得黄河法立法的突破。

Yellow River is one the most difficult rivers to manage in the world. With the economic and social development in the Yellow River Basin, the inherent contradictions in the basin and defects in management aggravate the difficulty in management. Therefore, it is necessary for legislation to regulate the complex relationships between different industries, river basin and regional area, as well as different regions and departments. However, the pursuit of rapid economic growth makes it difficult to widely publicize the river basin management concept of adaptive human activities to river basin characteristics. The status and responsibilities of river basin management agency are difficult to reach a consensus, allocation of legislative power is not reasonable, and the impacts of constraints of social and legal level and lack of theoretical studies, all of above results in that the Yellow River Law which has been called for many years was delayed in the process of national legislation. The recognition of the importance of the Yellow River Law, reformation of the legislation system, improvement of the prophase research on legislation, summary of the successful practice, and clear guiding ideology and principles of legislation are important for the achievement of a breakthrough in the legislation of Yellow River Law.

河南省哲学社会科学规划项目（2013BFX021）