As an important subsystem of urban environment, urban river offers many kinds of ecological services which benefit
the city dwellers. However, with the acceleration of urbanization and rapid development of economy, urban river
pollution problem are becoming more and more critical. This paper described the current situation of urban river
pollution, summarized the researches on river pollution control and remediation. After compared and analyzed
different techniques and clarified the concepts of bioremediation technology, based on the advances of river
remediation, this paper concluded the approaches to alleviate the river pollution problem that the biologicalecological remediation should be utilized as the primary technique, and the physical and chemical remediation as the
supplementary means