The present invention discloses one kind of heating equipment for cigarette producing cylinder and similar unit and its control method. The heating equipment includes a cylinder, a hot blast filtering screen, a hot blast circulating blower, a temperature detecting unit, a steam jetting pipe, a steam regulating valve, a heat exchanger with frequency variator, and a programmable logic controller, as well as a humidity detecting unit, a wind rate detecting unit and a heat exchanger regulating valve. It has one first control loop formed with the programmable logic controller, the hot blast circulating blower and its frequency variator; one second control loop formed with the programmable logic controller, the humidity detecting unit and the steam regulating valve; and one third control loop formed with the programmable logic controller, the temperature detecting unit and heat exchanger regulating valve. The equipment is controlled through on-line detection, automatic control, feedback and cycling.