By organizing and summarizing the information about the biomarkers predicting PD-1/PD-L1 in patients with lung cancer, this review mainly focused on the following six aspects to introduce: expression of PD-L1; tumor mutational burden and the ability of mutation repair, malignant tumor driver mutation, biomarker of immunological effect, blood cell account, comprehensive analysis model. The gene discussed is PDCD1; the disease is lung carcinoma.