The work aims to promote the research and application of self-organizing logistics in China and envisage its future research direction. By using the literature research methods, the researches on self-organizing logistics at home and abroad were summarized and reviewed. The research progress of self-organizing logistics was analyzed from the perspective of its paradigm, enabling technology, controlling algorithm, communicating protocol, evaluation method and engineering science. An in-depth study on self-organizing logistics should be done by researching the behavior characteristics of logistics unit, combining complex network, improving research methods and carrying out self-organizing logistics applications, etc.