Abstract:The farming-pastoral ecotone (line) basically coincides with the Hu Line,and its data has good stability.In the past 30 years,four separate censuses have shown that 57% of the land northwest of the line is home to 5.7% of the population.In this study,based on new ideas and GIS platform,Hu Line line was projected to the farming-pastoral ecotone,and the farming-pastoral line could be generated.This study showed that the agro-pastoral line which was expressed by GIS for the first time begins at the Sino-Russian border river in Aihui District,Heihe City,Heilongjiang Province,and passes through 84 counties,cities and streamers in 9 provinces (districts),including Heilongjiang,Inner Mongolia,Hebei,Shaanxi,Ningxia,Gansu,Qinghai,Sichuan and Yunnan province,and finally reaches the Sino-Myanmar border in the southwest of Tengchong City,Yunnan Province,with a total length of about 5136 km.The 53.3% of the land on the northwest side of the farming-pastoral line bears 16.8% of the population,and 46.7% of the land on the southeast side bears 83.2% of the population.The above results are more accurate,having more ecological and social significance,and is conducive to the formulation and implementation of various national plans in the future.The proposed Hongqi River project,with more than 200,000 km2 of continuous oasis on both sides,could develop at least 20 million/km2 of fertile farmland and provide space for the migration of 200 million peoples.After the completion of the Hongqi River project,the population of northwest China will increase from less than 80 million (5.7% of the total population) to nearly 300 million (21.4% of the total population).The traditional farming-pastoral ecotone will be greatly displaced,and the HU Line which had lasted for 100 years,so-called population density line,will also change accordingly.