Soil pollution and remediation is an important branch of soil science, which plays a key role in promoting control and remediation of soil pollution and ensuring the national soil environmental security and ecological civilization construction in China. This paper briefly states soil pollution status in China, introduces the research status and development trend in soil pollution and remediation at home and abroad, points out some problems in the research and development of soil pollution prevention and control in China, and puts forward the countermeasures and suggestions on general strategies and main directions of the future research and development in soil pollution and remediation in China.