机械化生产是作物轻简化生产的重要发展方向，棉花育苗移栽如何适应机械化发展要求，已成为棉花栽培研究的热点和难点问题。为此，简述了棉花育苗移栽的作用，回顾了当前使用比较典型的棉花育苗技术，并综合阐述了国内外作物机械化移栽的研究现状，尤其是对机械化移栽的棉苗素质和棉田以及移栽机研究和应用进行了重点分析，指出了棉花育苗机械化移栽存在的问题，提出了中国棉花育苗移栽机械化未来发展的方向及研究重点。以期为中国棉花生产轻简化栽培提供一定的理论依据。

As mechanization becoming the important development direction of crop production, the solution that seedling technique how to meet with the demands of mechanization has been being the hotspot and difficult problem of cotton cultivation. So briefly the impact of the seedling transplanting on cotton , reviewing the current typical seedling-raising techniques, and comprehensively elaborate domestic and foreign research the progress of crop transplanting mechanization, specially in seedling quality and cotton field demands, and the study and application of transplanting machines. It is pointed out that the main problems, the future tendency and study priorities on the way of seedling-raising and mechanized transplanting for cotton, in order to provide the certain evidences to cotton simplified cultivation.