Wear is one of the three failure modes, widely existing in all kinds of mechanical moving parts, resulting in a large number of economic losses. For the study of wear, in addition to improving the mechanical structure and good lubrication, the wear resistance of the material itself is crucial. As the most widely used metal material, the study of wear properties of steel is more systematic. In this paper, based on the iron-based wear-resistant materials, from the composition classification, introduced three categories, a total of nine categories of domestic iron-based wear-resistant materials about the development process, strengthening research and future trends, and the iron-based wear-resistant materials research made prospects.