Rice is the principal food crop in Jiangsu province, and is the top priority in food production. To accelerate the development of machine-transplanted rice to completely change painful work of traditional rice production is the urgent desire of the mass farmers, and also the urgent need to improve the comprehensive productivity of rice and to ensure the food security at the present stage in Jiangsu province, Moreover, it is the development direction of mechanical rice production and the dominant technology of rice planting in the future. The article outlined the development situation of machine-transplanted rice and analyzed the major problems in the development of machine-transplanted rice at the present stage, and proposed the countermeasures to accelerate the development of machine-transplanted rice in Jiangsu province.