A review.The progresses of world-wide PVC production technol. in recent years were introduced in aspects of raw materials, clean production, polymerization processes, and additives, including the followings: 1. producing vinyl chloride by using methane from renewable resources as raw materials, or by the dehydration of chloroethanol, in the absence of mercury catalyst; 2. fully utilizing the effluent heat both from the top and the bottom of distillation columns, to cut energy consumption by 10%-20%.3. The living radical polymerization of vinyl chloride conducted by single electron transfer-degenerative chain transfer-mediated living radical polymerization technol., to achieve the polymerization of vinyl chloride at room temperature, controllable mol. weight of PVC polymer, and no addition of plasticizers during processing.4. The addition of a kind of water soluble transition metal salt and a kind of complexing agent into the microsuspension polymerization system of vinyl chloride, to speed up the early polymerization significantly, increase the thermal stability of PVC resins, and reduce residual monomer content; 5. a kind of modified polyvinyl alc. obtained by copolymerization and hydrolysis of a small amount of maleate ester and vinyl acetate, which was used as the dispersant in small amount in polymerization of vinyl chloride to realize less scales on polymerizers, increase in apparent d. of PVC resins, and reduction in fish eye number6. Asym. ring polybasic acid esters and acetone derivatives, used as environmental friendly plasticizer with superior performance and low cost to fully replace toxic benzoic acid ester plasticizer.