Abstract: With the continuous development of China's economy and the large-scale emergence of high-rise civil buildings in urban construction, how to further ensure that high-rise civil buildings give full play to their practical, reasonable and economic characteristics, it is an important issue that designers should pay attention to. Based on this, this paper discusses the overview of fire protection design of high-rise civil buildings in China, the problems in fire protection design of high-rise civil buildings are analyzed, the fire protection design countermeasures of high-rise civil buildings are put forward.