In irrigation district,there are a large number of small water intakes under the flow rate of 0.1m3/s,and they are normally managed in a crude way with simple gates and without sound monitoring.The comprehensive reform of agricultural water price requires monitoring on water use of individual user.The traditional gate on small water intakes could not satisfy this requirement.Based on the analysis of the present situation of small water intakes in the Jinbei irrigation district and relevant problems,the advantages and disadvantages of applying modern automatic control gates from domestic and foreign manufacturers are discussed and analyzed in this paper.Development of the Valve type remote automatic control gate is suggested.This type of gate has stronger technical performances with a lower cost and can be easily produced,Meanwhile,as an integration of automatic water measurement,remote control and video monitoring with a sluice,it can be easily installed at a low cost and managed in a simple operation way.It has significant advantages in modernization of small water intake gates in a large irrigation district and could be widely used.