Advanced materials and processing technology are the key foundation of the aerospace vehicle structure. With a brief discussion of the classification and development trends of the aerospace vehicle structure of China， this paper summarizes the application and development requirements of the main body structure of space vehicles， including metal materials， composite materials and intelligent materials. Meanwhile the future development trend of advanced processing technology of aerospace structure is summarized from five aspects， including ultra-large-sized structure manufacturing， integral high performance manufacturing， composite structure manufacturing， additive manufacturing and green manufacturing， and the interested process technologies are proposed.