In the late 20 century,the living environment and sustainable development have become focuses all over the world.The mark "green" has become a ticket for a building material to be allowed into an important construction market.But in our country,there are still some misunderstandings to the new concept and the evaluation standard and system for the "green" building materials’ specialization and standardization haven’t been set up.In this paper,by synthesizing the different viewpoints and summarizing the current situation of the research on the "green" building material field,the future trend and direction and the research work that should be strengthened are told as well.