The degrading land caused by wind erosion and the subsequent desertification of farmland in Nnorthern China have been one of the severe eco-environmental problems， which mainly resulted by the long explosion of farmland during winter and spring seasons. The cultivation of winter rapeseed， winter wheat and the wheat stubble after harvest could effectively improve this issue， whose land coverage rates in winter were varied from 70% to 95%. The wind erosion modulus of winter rapeseed， winter wheat and wheat stubble were 22.3， 23.3 and 83.5 kg·hm^-2·h^-1，^{respectively， which were 4.10%， 4.28% and 15.36% of the control （spring seeded land， 543.6 kg·hm-2·h-1）， respectively. This study summarized the research progress of winter cover crops and high-efficiency environmental protection planting technology of annual coverage in China. The application and dissemination of winter cover crops could guarantee constant organic surface coverage for the farmland in Northern China throughout the year， and had achieved great success in preventing winter erosion of farmland， which was of great significance to improve the agricultural quality and the ecological environment in north China.}