This paper investigated some typical samples of national urban lifeline crises in 2012, summarized their characteristics and explored the potential laws and main factors of these national urban lifeline crises. Meanwhile, the paper also analyzed the problems, loopholes and shortages in urban lifeline crisis management in China through appraising some national methods adopted in present typical lifeline crisis. Besides, the paper analyzed urban lifeline's development tendency and forecasted the improvements of the urban lifeline crisis management. <<