Legal system is not only a guarantee for a city to develop fairly and equitably，but also one of the critical directions for modern city management development. Since the reform and opening up，China has been devoted to improving the city’s legal system，in 2007 and 2008，China’s legal system construction reached a new level，a large number of laws and regulations in these two years amended，proposed or adopted. The paper reviews and analyzes the laws and regulations that were passed in 2007 and 2008 and had important effect on urban management from five aspects of urban employment management，urban economic management，urban planning management，urban land management and energy conserving management. Such laws and regulations include Labor Contract Law，Employment Promotion Law，Enterprise Income Tax Law，Science and Technology Progress Law，Recycling Economy Law，Anti-monopoly Law，Urban and Rural Planning Act，Real Right Law and Conserving Energy Law. They greatly enhance the standardization of the urban management.