In order to promote the Yangtze River Protection, with regards to the needs of river ecological restoration in the Yangtze River Basin, this paper combed the ecological restoration practice of the Duwamish River in the United States, the Rhine River in Europe and the Drexam River in Germany including attaching importance to legislation and standardization construction, strictly strengthening system management, improving working mechanism, enhancing scientific and technological support, encouraging citizen participation and so on. Current situation and challenges of the Yangtze River Protection were analyzed including imperfect policies and regulations and industrial standards, inadequate top-level design and overall planning, imperfect working mechanism and regulatory system, many difficulties in restoration work, weak scientific research ability, and weak subjective consciousness of social forces participating in the ecological restoration of the Yangtze River. This paper put forward suggestions on carrying out river ecological restoration work in the Yangtze River Basin, which included improving laws and regulations, improving system, strengthening mechanism, innovating technologies and strengthening three-dimensional publicity.