Abstract: This paper resume tomato yellow leaf curl virus(TYLCV) diseases symptom, identification and taxonomy of virus, occurrence and control; Summarized TYLCV mainly occurred in the tropics and subtropics, it is spreading from south to north in China, its main cause serious harm in tomato production; According to the recent status of internal and external research works on this disease, spread trait and epidemic factor of TYLCV; Proposed comprehensive control measures that take cultural control as foundation both use chemical control and biological control, and by using molecular biology method to speed up the process of resistance breeding, such as genetic engineering, etc; Analysis shows that increase the strength of resistance breeding and then cultivated stable resistant varieties was a effective method to control and reduce the harm of the disease.