Many studies on remote sensing monitoring of plant diseases have been conducted. Remote sensing (RS) has played an important role in monitoring some kinds of plant diseases and making decisions for the management of the diseases. Progress on remote sensing monitoring of wheat stripe rust in China was summarized from four aspects including remote sensing monitoring stripe rust of single wheat leaves and monitoring this disease using ground, aerial and space remote sensing technologies. The phenomena of same object with different spectra and different objects with same spectrum, the lowest threshold of disease prevalence for remote sensing monitoring, the spectral information distilling technologies, and the methods to develop inversion models based on spectral information were also discussed. Moreover, the development trends of multi-pest remote sensing, space remote sensing and integrated utilization of RS, geographical information system (GIS) and global positioning system (GPS) in monitoring wheat stripe rust were prospected.