The invention relates to an airport runway foreign body monitoring system and method. The system includes an FOD private network which is connected with a plurality of FOD monitoring points, a wireless access point, a data center, a control center an airport private network; the wireless access point is connected with a handheld mobile terminal to obtain feedback, access and foreign body information and send foreign body cleaning instructions; the FOD private network obtains flight plans, foreign body confirmation instructions, monitoring point control instructions, database operation instructions, monitoring point control instructions, data fusion results and video splicing signals, and obtains monitoring point returned information, foreign body information, feedback information, access information and the state information of the control center; the data center obtains the FOD monitoring point control instructions, the database operation instructions, the returned information, the feedback information, the access information, the state information of the control center and the wireless access point; the control center obtains the flight plans, the data fusion results and the video splicing signals; and the FOD monitoring points obtain the foreign body confirmation instructions to confirm foreign body information. With the airport runway foreign matter monitoring system and method of the invention adopted, false alarm can be effectively reduced, and the reliability of a system can be improved.