With the economic development and expansion of urban function,the role of urban recreational land is increasingly important.However,the management system and planning practices of recreational land lag behind,study of urban recreational land is still awaiting a breakthrough.This paper firstly reviews the current domestic and recreational land management system,based on which,the authors sums up the current direction of domestic and foreign research in five domains:the concept and content of recreational land; construction of the ideal model of urban recreational land; urban recreational needs; urban recreational land indicator; the distribution of recreational land and facilities.Results by comparing the domestic and foreign research show that there is a large gap,especially seen in the theoretical construct,needs and indicators research.The conclusion is that possible future directions of domestic recreational land research are indicator system,recreational needs,distribution rules and contributing factors.