Development and application of soil quality-related standards in China were reviewed in this paper. By far, China has 26 national standards already published and 34 under development. A majority of them are concerned with chemical methods for assessing soil quality and only a minority deal with evaluation and collation of criteria and terminologies, biological methods and physical methods, and none talks about sampling, assessment, remediation and cultivation of soils. Although progresses have been made in the field of soil quality standards, problems do exist. In view of the status quo of soil quality standards and the existing problems, the paper puts forward a preliminary framework of the soil quality standard systme and orientation of soil quality standardization in China, taking into account the 12th five-year-plan science and technology program.