Fruit industry is the typical agriculture in hill, and mechanization of transportation in hilly region became the core requirement in the assignment of hilly orchard. In order to solve the problems on transportation in hilly orchard, domestic and foreign scholars conducted systematically research of transporting machineries in hilly orchard. Meanwhile, the research and application status of typical transporters used in hill orchard, including wheel transporter, pedrail transporter and pedrail wheel transporter, was summarized in this paper at home and abroad. The transporters were discussed and analyzed in terms of performance, using conditions and distinctive mechanism. Finally,development trend of the hilly orchard transporter is prospected.