Abstract: It is an important and complicated problem to determine the height of the wharf frontage when we design the general layout of a wharf. The height of a wharf frontage selected have a direct influence on both the use of the wharf and the investment in it. This paper presents a great number of data about the height of backland of the wharves located in Yangtze River basin and has explaned the questions of height about the general plan standard specifications of the river harbor dock, and the revisions have been put forward.