Community participation is an essential issue in heritage management. The international heritage organisation ICCROM published a guidance document discussing people-centred approaches to heritage management in 2015. The recommendation being that urban heritage management is carried out through a process of community participation. Despite the growing literature on community participation in urban heritage management, little research has been done on comparing Chinese to international approaches. Even though in China a number of pilot projects have carried out effective community participation and achieved excellent outcomes. This chapter, therefore, aims to fill this gap, by providing an overview that compares and discusses the similarities and differences between Chinese and international urban heritage practices. Urban heritage practices collected from the state-of-the-art were analysed to explore four specific themes: engaged communities, participatory methods, degrees of participation and steps taken within urban heritage management. This chapter concludes both Chinese and international practices seek to collaborate with and empower local communities in their approaches, with pilot cases in China, such as Tianzifang in Shanghai. However, in general, Chinese urban heritage management is a government-led process in which community participation is happening to a minimal degree. China is encouraged to learn from international practices when developing contextualised management approaches, to better face the challenges of rapid urbanisation.