Abstract:Huangpu Avenue is an important east-west traffic corridor in the central district of Guangzhou, and its traffic congestion has a significant impact on traffic travel, commercial activities, leisure tourism and citizen experience in the central district. According to the geographical location and traffic function of Huangpu Avenue, the traffic status of Huangpu Avenue is put into the background of the rapid development of economy and urban reclamation, and then combined with the urban space development and industrial layout of Guangzhou, the actual situation faced in the process of urban development of Guangzhou is reviewed, and the causes of traffic congestion of Huangpu Avenue are found out. This paper puts forward the traffic congestion solution from the main skeleton road network structure of Guangzhou city, low level planning road network of the district, urban renewal, greening public transport and traffic demand management.