Abstract: Research on urban-rural land use transition is not only a hot spot of the studies on global land use transformation in general, but also important to improve the regional market mechanisms, to re-distribute urban-land resources and to accelerate the overall development of urban-rural economy. We reviewed the research progress of urban-rural land use transition in China from the aspects of research scale, research object, research method, driving mechanism and so on. The results showed that the researches on land use transition were focused on application rather than theory. The research progress on land use transition was stimulated to meet people's need. Various researching branches on land use transition were to improve the level of research on land use transition. Furthermore, the followings should be paid more attention: (1) Research on overall urban-rural land transition combining with “out and in” dynamic balance between different urban-rural land type and landownership at the whole region; (2) Research on the new characteristics, new approaches and process mechanism of forward and reverse influence on social-economy reflecting to urban-rural land use transition based on different pressure and multi-scenario simulation, for example, regional social-economic transformation and rural land use institutions and policies reform, et al.