Abstract:The disadvantages of traditional water conservancy engineering measures promote the transformation of urban river management paradigm from engineering governance to ecological restoration. Green infrastructure (GI) has "flexible" regulation mode for urban river problems in terms of scale and function. From the perspective of GI, this paper compares the functional characteristics of river corridor and GI network,explores their positioning and functions, puts forward the ecological restoration process of river corridor based on GI concept. It takes Panxi River in Chongqing as an example, puts forward multi-scale (meso-scale and micro-scale) ecological restoration strategy, that is, to construct the spatial network pattern of water system and green space at the meso-scale, so as to enhance the connectivity of the urban “river green space” ecological network,and to optimize the composite function of Panxi river corridor at the micro-scale by landscape design and ecological elastic construction.