The invention provides a method for improving water quality of a reservoir by utilizing space-time specificities of a hydro-fluctuation belt. The method comprises the steps of (1) soil preparation of a counter-slope terrace of the hydro-fluctuation belt, (2) plant cultivation, and (3) plant harvest and utilization, and manual harvest for mulberry, crab grass, hemarthria compressa, sticktight and bermuda grass in experimental areas, wherein the mulberry, the crab grass, the hemarthria compressa, the sticktight and the bermuda grass serve as green feed and are used for feeding livestock, and all plants can be respectively harvested in different growth periods and used for fermentation of a methane-generating pit. According to the method for improving the water quality of the reservoir by utilizing the space-time specificities of the hydro-fluctuation belt, potential productivity of land of the gentle slope hydro-fluctuation belt is utilized, economic plants suitable for environment of the hydro-fluctuation belt are selected and planted, the plants can effectively absorb nitrogen, phosphorus and other pollutants in soil during growing, and pollution loads of the soil are reduced through harvest and utilization of the plants. Meanwhile, secondary cumulative pollution for water body due to death of the plants or rot of stem leaves is avoided, when the hydro-fluctuation belt is submerged, biogenic element conversion is generated on a water and soil interface, pollution for the water body due to release of the nitrogen, the phosphorus and the other pollutants in the soil is relieved, or the nitrogen, the phosphorus and the other pollutants in the water body are absorbed, and the aim of improving water quality is achieved.