Abstract: A review on recent progress of sample pretreatment methods (including ultrasonic digestion, electric plate digestion, microwave digestion, automatic graphite digestion and solid direct injection method) and analytical methods (including atomic absorption spectrometry, atomic fluorcence spectrometry, atomic emission spectrometry, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, electrochemical method, biosensor method) for heavy metal elements in air was presented (54 ref.cited).