In responding to the need of social change and educational reform, textbooks of elementary and secondary schools have been gradually open to commercial publishers to participate. However, the commercial textbooks have to be approved by textbook review committee organized by the Ministry of Education in order to sell to schools. This paper is to examine problems of current textbook review system, and point out ways to improve in following aspects: purposes, organization, committee members, procedures, evaluation criteria, time schedule, research and development mechanisms for a good textbook review system.