Soybean is an important crop of the agriculture in China, and its position of importance in the human diet structure of the country is irreplaceable in China. Progresses in the research on factors and macro-control obstacles affecting the creation of a soil environment favorable to cultivation of high-yield and quality safe soybeans were collaged in this study. Results based on bibliometric analysis show that in the past 20 years, the hot spots of the researches the world over mainly concentrated on adsorption and transport processes of herbicides in soil-water interface, safety risk of heavy metal pollution in food chain, growth of soybean and pollution toxicology therein, and prevention and control of soil-borne diseases; and more attention was paid to mechanisms of physiological adaption of soybean in response to stress of pollution and diseases rather than to underground soil processes that might affect soybean growth and reduce soybean yield. The researches in China also showed an apparent gap in the field of underground soil environmental processes and micro-ecological effects in soybean producing areas. Under the new situation of the nation adjusting its food security strategy and reforming its agricultural supply lateral structure, it is urgent for the nation to orient follow-up works of the researches around the soybean industry towards tackling the task of combining organically raising grain yields with adopting safe utilization of contaminated cultivated lands, to pay more attention to the expansion of the focus from merely on soil fertility, breeding optimization and yield increase, to on soil safety and micro-ecological health simultaneously while ensuring soybean quality and safety, so as to support high quality green development of the soybean industry, and to unfold researches on construction of a high yield creation system that harmonizes soil health and pollution prevention of the soybean producing areas, and highlights the role of soil environmental protection and function improvement in green production and high-quality development of the soybean industry.