Abstract: The advances on river management in developed countries are introduced and discussed in this paper.By analyzing the existing problems in urban river management and harness in China,the necessarity of changing the notion of urban river management and reforming the harness techniques are put forward.It is also pointed out that the tendency of integrated management of urban rivers are as follows:①assuring the land for river,②introducing the idea basing on human in river planning,③recovering the biodiversity,landscape diversity and environmental self-cleaning capacity of river,④researching and applying the multiple natural river technique harnessing the river,and ⑤building the sociable management mechanism for the urban river.