Abstract: Mined wastelands have posed a serious threat to the socio-economic sustainable development and human survival. It is very difficult to achieve self-restoration of the damaged ecosystem. Only through the artificial measures can speed up the revegetation of mined wasteland. In order to further improve the level of mined wasteland revegetation, the present research situation of that was summarized at home and abroad. In the end the existing problems and future research directions were put forward.