A review, with 28 references, is given on the pretreatment technol. of phosphogypsum.The impurities in phosphogypsum is classified and discussed, the pretreatment technologies of phosphogypsum are introduced.A harmless treatment technol. of phosphogypsum is briefly introduced, which uses the phosphorus tailings slurry to treat phosphogypsum.This technol. is with the simple process, low processing cost, and is easy to be implemented.