Most of Chinas wetland areas are located in Sanjiang Plain (Three River Basin). Its area has 207×104 hm2 of wet and low-lying farmland, of which 59% is cropped. During 1970s and 1980s, the Chinese government organized intensive scientific research into potential changes to existing natural resources conditions for this farmland.The aim was to make the water resources regime beneficial to crop production. Arterial drainage, field drainage and appropriate sub-soil treatments were suggested. The Four Waters converting mechanism and the estimation of the Four Water converting amount in wet and low-lying farmland were discussed in the paper.