The west Dongting Lake model is a new nature reserve management practice,which has adopted administrative law enforcement in a relatively concentrative manner in nature reserves and possessed such features as government authorization,integrated management,unified law enforcement and sector supervision.It has also brought into better balance the relations between nature reserves,relevant sectors and township governments,reduced the costs for protection and management and enhanced reservation efficiency and benefits.The west Dongting Lake model has provided experiences and approaches for reforming the present natural resources management system and implementing the natural resources assets management system in a unified way.On the basis of the west Dongting Lake model and changes of China's natural resources management system,this paper has analyzed the basic trend of China's natural resources management system reform in four aspects.