With the rapid population growth and development of Chinese economy,the issues of water resources such as flood,drought,water pollution,soil erosion and so on are becoming more and more serious, and the vulnerability of water resource system in hilly areas of southern China is getting more and more obvious.In order to research the vulnerability and its temporal and spatial distribution characteristics of rural water resource system from the perspective of integrated water resource management, Hengyang basin which is a typical region in hilly area of southern China will be selected as the objec...