Functionalization of glass surface is an important method and effective way to prepare functional glass and expand its application fields. By depositing, coating and plating on the glass surface through high-energy particle action, coupling grafting and chemical cross-linking, the glass can be endowed with good composite properties such as light storage and luminescence, superconductivity, information storage, antibacterial self-cleaning, metallization, photocatalysis and antistatic properties on top of its basic properties. This paper mainly reviews the research progress of glass surface modification methods, discusses the characteristics of traditional processes including sputtering deposition, thermal spraying, chemical vapor deposition, sol-gel method, etc. These methods have advantages of low cost, but also have problems of low level of interface functionalization and poor performance of modified interfaces, and analyzes and outlines the mechanism and research progress of new modification techniques such as high-energy particle method, coupling, chemical grafting and cross-linking modification.