Seedling establishment, winter survival rate and dry mater production of chinese milk vetch(Astragalus sinicus L.) in natural reseeding practice was compared with annual seeding during the period of 2006-2007. Generally, practicing natural reseeding technology gives higher seedling stand than the annual seeding because of high seeding survival rate. The high seedling survival rate in naturally reseeded plant is related to the longer root length than that of the annual-seeded plant. In annual seeding, most of seeds stayed on the soil surface and root can not easily penetrate the soil. However, in natural reseeding technology, the seeds are incorporated into the soil during land preparation and they emerged from the soil at 0 to 5cm depths, thereby it has longer root length. This long root length contributes to greater ability to survive even low temperature and low soil moisture condition during winter. The dry matter production in natural seeding was higher than the annual seeding at the early growth stage but the later it was similar in both natural reseeding and annual seeding.