Abstract: Hail disaster has always been the main bottleneck factor that plagues the economic development of Xinjiang,and the key to hail suppression and disaster reduction is how to identify and warn hail clouds. The author reviewed and summarized the development history of artificial hail suppression in Xinjiang in recent 62 years（1959-2021）,the spatial distribution characteristics of hail clouds,the moving path of hail cloud clusters,the atmospheric circulation characteristics of hail occurrence,the microphysical characteristics of hail clouds,the air flow structure,and the application of meteorological satellites,radar and lightning locators and numerical simulation technology in the field of hail cloud research. Finally,some countermeasures and suggestions were put forward for the problems existing in the research of hail clouds in Xinjiang,which would provide basis and reference for future research.