Data regarding to Liyuan River basin were collected to establish a data-base.Then,a physically based distributed hydrological model(SWAT) was used to simulate the surface runoff from 1990 to 1999 on the basis of this data-base.After that,the analog value was compared with the actual one,we could get the results that the relative error is less than 10%,the correlation and Nash-Sutcliffe coefficients are both above 0.80.It indicated that the established SWAT model can be applied to the surface runoff simulati...