Abstract: Takyric solonetz, a typical subclass of alkali soil, is widely distributed in the north of Yinchuan Plain of Ningxia Province, the west of Hetao Plain and the desert steppe in north Xinjiang in China. Due to the hard soil texture, poor permeability and difficult improvement, takyric solonetz has become the main factor severely affecting the development of local agriculture, and is expected to bring threat to the regional food security in the future. More and more improvement techniques have been developed to achieve a sustainable utilization of saline-alkali waste land, but the effect of the treatment of leaching + gypsum + furfural residue + desert sand + deep scarification + soil bin on soil properties and yield of oil sunflower on newly reclaimed takyric solonetz land remains unknown. In the present study, we conducted a three-year field comparative experiment to investigate the effect of different salt-water regulation modes on soil properties and yield of oil sunflowers, which were planted on newly reclaimed takyric solonetz land on the Qianjin Farmland of Xidatan, Ningxia (106°24′209″ E, 38°50′289″ N). On the basis of the unified application of desulfurization gypsum of 28 t3/hm2, furfural residue of 22.5 t3/hm2 and leaching water of 4 500 m3/hm2, 7 salt-water regulation measures were applied: desert sand (T1), deep scarification (T2), soil bin (T3), desert sand + deep scarification (T4), desert sand +soil bin (T5), deep scarification + soil bin (T6), and desert sand + deep scarification + soil bin (T7). A flat field only with leaching (4 500 m3/hm2) was used as control (CK). Soil permeability, pH value, electrical conductivity (EC), exchangeable sodium saturation percentage (ESP), salt ions and growth of oil sunflower were monitored during the whole growth season. Results indicated the pH value, EC, ESP and salt ions in 0-40 cm soil layer significantly decreased (P<0.01) under T7 compared with those under CK, and the pH value, EC and ESP decreased by 22%, 95% and 71% respectively. Furthermore, the values of pH, EC and ESP were lower in the third year than those in the first year, which dropped to 7.25, 0.087 ms/cm and 5.2% respectively. By comparing the values of pH, EC and ESP between the 7 treatments in 0-40 cm, our results indicated that these values were the highest under T7, followed orderly by T6, T4, T2, T5, T3 and T1, and T1 showed the lowest values. In addition, T7 increased the emergence rate and the yield of oil sunflower by 6% and 16%, 8% and 19%, 3% and 15%, 21% and 28%, 16% and 20%, and 19% and 21% respectively compared to T6, T4, T5, T2, T3 and T1. We thus conclude that the regulation mode of desert sand + deep scarification + soil bin is able to improve the newly reclaimed takyric solonetz land most effectively. These results will also provide a technical support for the salt-water management of the newly reclaimed takyric solonetz farmlands, and a guide for the sustainable development and utilization of waste takyric solonetz land.