Land is the foundation of human survival and the cornerstone of human development.China is a developing country with a large population and also a large agricultural country,and the issue of rural land has always been a strategic issue of great significance in the process of economic and social development.This paper introduces the key progress of rural land research in China from 2000 to 2019 in terms of three aspects:agricultural land protection,land system and land consolidation.It is found that the research content of rural land in China has experienced a very obvious transition and improvement.The understanding of specific research content continues to expand with the time.This paper studies and analyzes the existing problems of rural land research in China,and puts forward the research direction of rural land problems in China.