Soybean（Glycine max（Linn.）Merr）serves as an important economical crop in world and also China，and provides abundant protein and oil in human and animal diets. However，China is ranging first worldwide on import of soybean products，and domestic soybean production only occupies<30% on industry demand. Furthermore，the yield and quality of imported soybeans is much better than these of national products. Soybean is a native crop species of China with over 5000 years of planting history. Although there are abundant soybean germplasm resources in China，how to efficiently use them for high-yield and high-quality breeding remained to be concerned for soybean geneticists and breeders. Compared with traditional technology，gene editing technology is an easy-to-hand，fast and efficient transgenic approach. In this paper，we summarized recent progresses on studies of soybean germplasm resources and the application of gene editing technology，and we expect to provide insights for efficient utilization of soybean germplasm resources in the future.