Plant transgenic technology is a novel way in crop genetic improvement. Transgenic maize has become one of hot spots in the field of plant genetic engineering. Recently, Transgenic maize with insect resistance and herbicide resistance as well as other characters had been gotten by transgenic technology. In this paper, the author reviewed the research advances of transgenic maize in transfergenic receptor system，target genes and transformation methods. Further, this paper briefly introduced the questions and ways of transgenic maize and the advances on other types maize in recent years
