In this paper,the nonlinear drift waves described by the Hasegawa-Mima equation have been investigated by means of analytic researches and numerical simulations.The numerical results have been shown by figures.The initial disturbances of electrostatic waves,by the nonlinear mode-coupling,will evolve into a chain of vortices,these vortices gobble up each other and some large stable vortices are formed at the final stage of the nonlinear evolution.