The river regulation in China has transformed from urban and big rivers to medium sized and small rivers. Aiming at the problems in the rural river regulation, the author of this paper summarized river regulation experiences at home and abroad, analyzed the stage of Chinese rural rivers regulation, set up several pollution control scenarios, and made it clear to the concept and regulation objectives of Chinese rural river. The author also discussed the hierarchy rules of regulation objectives, pathways of water quality improvement and transitional method of river regulation. A regulation model based on the concept of “nature friendly river” is proposed as the references for the theories, ideas and measurements of rural river regulation in China.