Abstract: Cervical cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in gynecology, which is the only cancer recommended by The World Health Organization to start screening throughout the world. The screening strategy is different from countries. The current methods are Pap smear, liquid-based cytology, HPV-DNA testing, visual inspection（VIA）, visual inspection with Lugol′s iodine（VILI） and so on. It is considerable to apply the reasonable strategy in
different districts . Still several problems exist, such as screening crowd, screening interval and screening method and so on. This paper reviews these exist problems and the research progress in the current cervical screening methods and the feasibility of the combination of different screening methods.

Key words: Uterine cervical neoplasms, Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, Uterine cervical dysplasia, Papillomaviridae