Subsurface pipe drainage technology,an important water engineer measure,is widely used in arid and semi-arid areas.Material types,the methods and reference index of installing drain pipes,quality prediction of discharge and subsurface pipe drainage application on improvement of soda-saline soil were introduced in this paper.A new chance which offered by the great land development and consolidation project in the west of Jilin province was proposed for soda-saline improvement by subsurface pipe drainage.