Through civil investigation, oversea study visit, studying home and abroad literatures about dredged materials and so on, we compare and analyze the domestic and international status and characteristics of comprehensive utilization of dredged materials, find the main problems and gaps existing in comprehensive utilization of dredged materials, and give some advice on the development orientation and focus of China concerning the utilization technology of dredged materials. The result shows that China’s level of comprehensive uses of dredged material is far behind the major developed countries abroad. The impact of China’s beneficial uses of dredged material is not only technical issue, but also other non-technical problems about concept understanding, institutional mechanisms, laws and regulations and profit distribution, etc. The development orientation and study focus of comprehensive utilization of dredged materials in China will be on the technology of blowing mud to the beach, new study and development of dredging equipment, diverse processing technologies of comprehensive utilization of dredged materials and strengthening of environmental protection technology research in the dredging process.