Abstract:Soil pollution is a major environmental problem urgently needed to be resolved. The overall situation of national soil environment is not optimistic, i.e. serious soil pollution having been found in some areas, soil environmental quality of cultivated land having been a big worry and soil environmental issues on mining and industrial wasteland being outstanding. Soil pollution was caused by various factors, and has shown serious harm, meanwhile, soil environmental supervision and management system is not soundly established. Soil environmental protection is facing many challenges. Next, we should further strengthen soil pollution prevention and control by implementing 6 tasks, which are:(1)to establish policies, law, regulations, and standards on soil pollution prevention and control;(2)to enhance control on soil contamination sources;(3)to enforce strict control of environmental risks of contaminated soils;(4)to carry out pilot and demonstration projects on remediation of contaminated soils;(5)to strengthen scientific and technological capability-building on soil pollution prevention and control;(6)to establish investment mechanism of soil pollution prevention and control.