The soil pollution has been the one of the serious environmental problems with the rapid development of the industry and the growth of the world population nowadays all over the world. A large number of harmful substances in the contaminated soil, especially the heavy metal pollutant which has potential threat to the mankind, have been paid attention by many people increasingly. At present, there are mainly some physical chemistry methods to deal with the heavy metal pollutant in the world, but they have some disadvantages, such as high cost, hard-operating, secondary pollution, etc. Although phytoremediation is limited by species of plants, rhizosphere and the elements of the pollutant, some research has indicated the theory have wide practical prospect in environmental protection in the future. Researches of phytoremedition to get rid of heavy metal in the contaminated soil were reviewed in the paper.