Desert plants were species growing in extremely dry habitats with nutrient-impoverished and high saline soils. Living in a desert environment for a long time, desert plants formed adaptive strategies to deserted environment. And they played important roles in maintaining the stability of the fragile desert ecosystem and in restoring the damaged desert environment. Comprehension of desert plant adaptive strategies to deserted environment would benefit the conservation of species diversity in desert ecosystem and the reconstruction of deserted environment by desert plants. Adaptive strategies of desert plants to dry, saline and poor soil and the adaptive ability of community reproduction to desert environment were reviewed in the paper. In addition, research on desert plant adaptive strategies to deserted environment was prospected.