Abstract: This paper reviewed the recent progress on the sunflower in China.The main problems of China sunflower industry were fewer processing enterprises and smaller manufacturing sector，lack of confection hybrids with high yield，high quality and high resistance to diseases and insects，fewer investment，extensive management and serious diseases，insects and weeds，slowly in varieties updating and commercializing of research findings，disordered market and unreasonable rotating system. The future research priorities and strategy were also proposed.