The European Geosciences Union General Assembly was held on April 7 - April 12, 2013 in the capital of Austrian, Vienna. This year, the EGU General Assembly 2013 was again a great success with 4,684 oral, 8,207 poster, and 452 PICO presentations as well as 11,167 scientists attending from 95 countries. There were 22 disciplinary sessions in the conference, and the latest development of different thematic areas in geosciences was discussed. Discussion on soil erosion models in the conference mainly from three aspects: new developments of the model, application of the model and model uncertainty. The meeting stressed the communication and collaboration of different areas in geosciences, concerned the challenges of soil erosion model. The following aspects are the revelation of EGU on China’s research of soil erosion model: (1) emphasizing the research of the integrating technology of different scales, different types of erosion models; (2) strengthening the research on mechanism of soil erosion, and improving the model structure on this basis; (3) promoting the GIS and RS technology in soil erosion applications to provide technical support for the erosion model research.