The invention discloses a multiple step type drilling and protecting integrated 
system and a process for a soft 
coal seam. The 
system mainly comprises an 
air compressor, a high-pressure rubber hose, a hole protecting drilling 
machine, a rack, a hole protecting drilling rod, a guider and a simple 
drill. The process comprises the steps of firstly drilling a hole by using a common drilling rod and a common 
drill and pulling the common drilling rod and the common 
drill out of the hole after the hole is formed; then performing second drilling of the formed 
drill hole by using the hole protecting drilling rod and the simple drill in a matching mode, and simultaneously performing wind-power auxiliary slagging, when an end hole point is drilled, the hole protecting drilling rod is not withdrawn, the 
whole body is left inside the hole, and hole wall supporting and gas extraction functions are achieved; and finally pulling out and recycling the hole protecting drilling rod through the hole protecting driller after the gas extraction is completed. According to the 
system and the process, the process is unique, a hole protecting 
pipe can transmit high-pressure air and can extract gas, the 
coal dust discharging performance is strong, the hole protecting 
pipe moves forwards along the 
drill hole easily, the hole protecting 
pipe diameter is large, the hole protecting length is long, the problems that the soft 
coal seam is small in hole protecting pipe 
diameter and short in feeding distance are solved, and the system and the process are particularly suitable for soft high gas coal seams with a value of a sturdiness coefficient f, which ranges between 0.3 and 0.8.