Artificially constructed planar metasurfaces play a crucial role in photonics and emerging optoelectronic technologies due to their unique electromagnetic characteristics, ultrathin profiles, and seamless integration capabilities. Light-emitting metasurfaces based on near-field resonance modes exhibit unique advantages in scattering radiative photons, directing and enhancing light emission, expanding their applications in advanced photonics. This review provides an insightful overview of the basic principles of manipulating and controlling the emission behavior of ensembled quantum emitters, and provides a detailed introduction to the latest research and application progress of light-emitting metasurfaces within the visible light spectrum, including applications in fields such as miniature solid-state lighting devices, virtual reality and augmented reality high-definition displays, visible light communication, high-energy X-ray detection, chiral light-sources, and low threshold micro/nano lasers, etc. Finally, future development directions of light-emitting metasurfaces are prospected.