Abstract: The recent advances in distributed hydrological modeling in the Yellow River basin are reviewed in this paper.The purpose of this study is to develop distributed hydrological models for the Yellow River basin,which is part of the National Key Project "Water Resources Evolution Law and Renewability Maintaining Mechanism"(also simplified as Yellow River "973" project,G19990436). The discussion involvs the framework of distributed hydrological models and the related technological tools such as DEM,GIS and RS. Furthermore,the advances in distributed hydrological modeling are also described and some proposals for further study on hydrological modeling are discussed.