The prelude to legislation for a single river basin was opened by the proposal of The Draft of the Yangtze River Protection Law. Due to its special ecological，cultural and historical status，the Yellow River protection legislation is imperative. However，if we only talk about rivers and water，the superficiality and shallowness of the Yellow River governance may occur. The legislation of the Yellow River should be based on the investigation of the impact of natural space-time and social space-time on the governance of the Yellow River. We should be adopted a dual-track legislative model in which the two main lines of the Yellow River’s legislative. They’re important of soil and water conservation and ecological restoration under natural space-time and the control of the Yellow River’s legislative water volume and the prevention and control of water pollution under social space-time. The two main lines are intertwined in order to ensure the realization of the goal of ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River.