Abstract. In this paper, an improved G G -expansion method is proposed for obtaining travelling wave solutions of nonlinear evolution equations. The proposed technique called As a result, more travelling wave solutions are obtained including not only all the known solutions but also the computation burden is greatly decreased compared with the existing method. The travelling wave solutions are expressed by the hyperbolic functions and the trigonometric functions. The result reveals that the proposed method is simple and effective, and can be used for many other nonlinear evolutions equations arising in mathematical physics.