Abstract: In recent decades, with the rapid expansion of the global population and the stride forward of the process of industrialization, a lot of heavy metals had been emitted in soil environment, which had led great harm to our health. Due to the low cost of the phytoremediation of heavy metal pollution, the advantages of wide adaptability, no secondary pollution, it had been widely studied and paid attentions by many scholars in recent years. The present situation and the characteristics of soil heavy metal pollution and the general situation of the type of soil heavy metal phytoremediation technology were summarized in this paper. And the research progress of hyperaccumulator and was summarized. And the paper analyzed the limits of hyperaccumulators in recent years; it also made an outlook of phytoremediation.