Prior to 2000, the known distribution of Booted Eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus) in China was limited in Xinjiang, Liaoning, Beijing, Yunnan and Sichuan. While after 2000, along with the emergence of the Chinese bird-watchers’ population, more records of the Booted Eagle were found in another 17 provinces and autonomous regions. Based on existed reports, records and our own field observations, here we present a systematic review of the distribution and status of the Booted Eagle in China. We found that this raptor being a summer visitor in the West Desert and Tianshan Mountain biogeographic subregion, a summer visitor or resident in the Qinghai-Southern Tibet subregion, and a winter visitor to the Southern Yunan Mountain subregion. Furthermore, the Booted Eagle is considered as a passage migrant to most of other areas in China. The existing records in Heilongjiang and Jilin Provinces should be regarded as invalid as lack of solid evidence. With a preliminary analysis of the ratio of the dark morph and pale morph in the Booted Eagle recorded in China, we found that there were much more dark morph individuals than pale morph ones (dark∶light = 41∶9), which was similar to the known ratios in other parts of Asia (Malay Peninsula 15∶1, Thailand 37∶8). However, the ratio of light individuals was about 80% in Spain and South Africa, around 60% in Turkey, Greece and Israel, almost 50% in Georgia. Therefore, the proportion of dark morph individuals in the Booted Eagle clearly shows an increasing trend from west to east in continental Eurasia.