Abstract:Soil pollution is closely linked with the safety of food, environment, ecosystem, as well as public health and social stabilization. Therefore, it is extremely urgent to carry out related research and development on soil environmental protection and pollution prevention, control and remediation of farmland and construction land in China. This review provides a systematic summary of the current status of soil environment pollution, its need for regulation, international trends on soil environment and pollution remediation, and current status of soil environment and pollution remediation researches in China. In addition, this review makes a prospective for the future research and development of the Chinese soil environment and pollution remediation. It especially emphasized the urgency to explore soil environment system and study the technologies on soil pollution prevention, control and remediation for farmland and construction land. Based on the above-mentioned analyses, the paper proposes a national project initiative focusing on soil pollution prevention, control and remediation, which aims to promote the innovation in soil environmental science and technology, and speed up the development of soil remediation industry.