The thermal entanglement is investigated in a two-qubit Heisenberg XXZ system with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction. It is shown that the entanglement can be efficiently controlled by the DM interaction parameter and coupling coefficient $J_{z}
$. $D_{x}$(the x-component parameter of the DM interaction) has a more remarkable influence on the entanglement and the critical temperature than $D_{z}$(the z-component parameter of the DM interaction). Thus, by the change of DM interaction direction, we can get a more efficient control parameter to increase the entanglement and the critical temperature.
