Abstract: With the rapid development of social economy and the expansion of urban and rural development, the limited natural wetland resources, which located in the suburb, have aroused strong concern in all aspects of society in recent years. Especially, wetland riparian zone, as one of the vital part of wetland, is facing increasingly serious challenges and controversies between ecological protection and development utilization. According to the principle of wetland restoration and the conception of landscape ecology, this paper firstly made a summary of ecological edge effect characteristics, landscape corridor characteristics and landscape grading characteristics in wetland riparian zone; stated that the ecological service function of wetland riparian zone contained provision, regulation, supporting and cultural services as well; then put forward the planning objectives and design principles; discussed the key points of landscape pattern space planning in overall planning level and the interconnecting and influence between each landscape patch in the longitudinal, transverse and vertical dimensional space; finally gave the suggestions of detailed design on the water, landform, vegetation and culture landscape element in wetland riparian zone. Through the above description, this paper provided a certain theoretical support and technical guidance with a view to the future of landscape planning and design in wetland restoration and construction.