Ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin is an important national strategy，while the level of grass-roots governance is an important dimension of high-quality development. The villages and towns along the Yellow River are highly overlapped with the land resources such as “Yellow River Beach Area”，“Old Road of Yellow River” and “Yellow River Wetland”，which are self-contained. In the past 20 years，their planning themes have also undergone several evolutions such as “beach area construction”，“precise poverty alleviation”，“characteristic towns” and “ecological protection”. Related Budget Law，Bidding Law，Urban and Rural Planning Law，Water Law，Environmental Protection Law and so on have been formulated and revised，which have drawn a clear outline of the rule of law process with the acceleration of Zhengzhou’s national central city construction，the ecological value of the Yellow River will continue to improve，and grass-roots governance as a microscopic problem in the process of rule of law will also become more prominent. Focusing on the implementation process of coastal construction projects in the Yellow River beach area in recent years，we can get a glimpse of a concentrated history of water control. At present，the integration of the rule of law and grass-roots governance has formed a new type of “water control civilization”，the core of which lies in the value concept of “following the good” and the institutional mechanism of “guiding according to the situation”. In the future，we should use this as a driving force to reach the “overlapping consensus” of the people in coastal villages and towns，build a “soft environment” for the rule of law，and initiate “induced” institutional changes and civilization progress，so as to provide a model for the rule of law and grass-roots governance in rural areas along the Yellow River.