This paper reviews and combs the research of the urbanity of rural migrants based on traditional literature review and systematic literature review. It is found that the study has gone through three stages: initial exploration, fast development, and further innovation, with four main research topics: connotation understanding, influencing factors, degree evaluation and realization approaches. With the development of the practice and the expansion of the research team, there are abundant achievements in the research of the urbanity of rural migrants with diversified methods. Humanistic concern is integrated into the research value, and the research conclusions are gradually deepened, but there is still a lack of interdisciplinary, systematic, comprehensive and practical research. In the context of urbanization in the new era, future research should explore the innovation of informatization research and the growth of urbanity evaluation with the help of modern research methods, and establish a theoretical system with Chinese characteristics for the research of urbanity of rural migrants, so as to lay a foundation for promoting human-oriented urbanization and modernization.