Compared to other countries or regions，China’s urban renewal has started relatively late，and has gone through a development process from extensive management to refined management，from only infrastructure renewal to multiple objectives such as sustainable development of history and humanity. Since the founding of the people’s Republic of China，Beijing’s urban renewal has roughly gone through 5 different stages：germination stage，exploration stage，breakthrough stage，speeding up and efficiency increasing stage，and comprehensive promotion stage. Beijing’s urban renewal has successively explored and formed distinctive models or cases，such as applying surrender of tenancy，protective renovation，restorative construction of single-storey houses（courtyards） in the core function area of the capital，old communities reconstruction，reconstruction of dilapidated buildings and renovation of simply equipped buildings，upgrading of old buildings and traditional business districts，“vacating cage to change bird” in inefficient industrial parks and renovation of old factories，transformation of urban shanty towns. The project background，policy requirements and renewal mode of various typical cases have their own characteristics，and their difficulties and solutions also differ. In the coming period，based on the in-depth summary of the experience of different typical practical cases，Beijing’s urban renewal should accelerate the legislative process，strengthen the construction of policies，systems and technical standards，actively encourage the participation of social capital，and build a scientific and reasonable interest distribution mechanism.