Abstract: With the establishment of high-power laser facilities and the development of precise measurement technology, the interaction between high-power lasers and solids has become an important path to generate warm dense matter in laboratories. The structural complexity, transients and non-equilibrium of warm dense matter have brought great challenges to theoretical modeling and experimental measurements. This paper systematically reviews the important advances in the experimental methods and theoretical simulation methods in laser-generating warm dense matter, analyzes the physical processes such as electron excitation dynamics, electron-ion energy relaxation, and ionic dynamics. It summarizes the experimental techniques and theoretical methods of state diagnosis of warm dense matter, and discusses the development trend of laser-generating warm dense matter.