The study on the plant community and soil stoichiometric characteristics of artificial grassland is help- ful for us to evaluate the restoration effect of degraded grassland in the three -river-source region. In this experiment, black soil land was used as control,and the plant community and soil stoichiometric characteristics were compared with native grassland and artificial grassland for 12 and 19 years. The effects of environmental factors on the species composition of the community were also analyzed. The results show that:(1)Vegetation reconstruction changed the community composition of degraded grassland on black soil land,and the proportion of excellent forage increased. The dominant species of artificial grassland were Elymus nutans,Kobresia humilis and Kobresia pygmaea,but the dominant species of black soil land were Artemisia hedinii,Ajania tenuifolia and Ligularia virgaurea. The vegetation richness,diversity index and evenness index displayed a definite trend: native grassland > black soil land > artificial grassland.(2) The trends of soil organic carbon,total nitrogen and total phosphorus content was as follows: native grassland > artificial grassland > black soil land. There were significantly correlations among soil organic carbon,to- tal nitrogen and total phosphorus(P<0. 05). Likewise,there was a significantly correlation between Soil C∶N and C∶ P(P=0. 0015).(3) The results of redundancy analysis(RDA)showed that soil pH,soil moisture,total nitrogen and total phosphorus were the main factors affecting plant species distribution. Soil pH explained 29% (P=0. 002),soil water content explained 21% (P=0. 016),and soil total nitrogen explained 16% (P=0. 002) of the variance of plant community composition. Soil total phosphorus explained 13% of the variance of plant community composition (P= 0. 004). Combined with the characteristics of vegetation community and ecological stoichiometry of carbon,nitrogen and phosphorus,the plant community of artificial grassland established for 19 years was relatively stable,but it was not completely recovered to the state of native grassland. Therefore,the nitrogen addition and soil improvement of ar- tificial grassland should be strengthened in the future.