Editing modernization, as an important content in editing science research, is the main direction in editing science research. Currently there are abundant research achievements in editing modernization research, however, there are some problems in the research as a whole, such as the lack of systematic theory, unscientific concepts existed, especially there are a lot of concepts related to editing modernization which have different opinions and are short of persuasion such as editing modernization, editing subject and editing object and so on and which affect further improvement of the research on editing modernization. The rationalization of these concepts is of active significance to boosting editing modernization development. 