Recently, the aromatic heterocyclic sulfide was widely used in medical and functional materials as an intermediate in organic chemistry and a structural unit in drug synthesis. Their synthetic method has become one of the hot research areas. This review summarizes the recent synthetic methods of aromatic heterocyclic thioether, which mainly involves metallic catalyzed and no metal-catalyzed methods, as well as benzene alkyne intermediate method. Some of their synthetic mechanisms were illustrated.