The research and application of river control technology in foreign countries began with Japan, the United States and some European countries in the 50s of 20th century. Their concept of river management was the comprehensive control from the ecological protection and environmental governance, and combined the engineering measures with water environment and social environment. The river ecorestoration became an international hot spot after 1980s. China has entered the stage of comprehensive river control and eco-restoration in the late 1990s, and has carried out much remediation work. But most
of them remain in the initial experiment. Proposals on the trend of river pollution remediation are finally put forward.