The Yellow River delta is divided into four-grade landform types in this article.An ancient Yellow River delta was first found,it is located inthe western section of Lijin County of Shandong Province and formed between 40 B.C.and 1048 A.D.The development of the Yellow River delta can be differentiated by three stages,i.e.ancient,modern and contemporary. Based on the above-mentioned studies,the delta district can be divided into six subdistricts according to land-use conditions and the measures of rearrangeanent for these subdistricts were put forward respectively in the paper.In the light of the regularities of discharge changes and silt transportation of the Yellow River delta,The auther suggest that the water of the river should not be channeled in high flow seasons in order to let the floodwater down-erode the bed and that the water should be drawn into the fields in dry seasons in order to leach away salt by irrigation and restrain alkalinity by deposition.