Associated research involving river sand mining management wassorted out and reviewed from the perspectives of river sand ownership definition, sand mining planning and permit selection, sand mining trading methods exploration, solutions to illegal sand mining behavior and informational sand mining management construction. Comprehensive analysis indicates that unclear representation of ownership subject exercises the absence of sand mining management responsible body. The lack of internal mechanism between sand mining impacts and sand mining planning restricts the scientific decision-making of sand mining planning schemes. Understanding about applicable conditions of different sand mining trading methods in existing research is deficient. At the same time, new generation of information technology owns great potential for use in sand mining management. Based on above, the following problems can be tried to be studied in the future, including sand mining management system after institutional reform, comprehensive evaluation and decision-making of sand mining planning schemes, innovative design of sand mining trading methods, and construction of a whole process oriented digital intelligent platform for sand mining management.