Nebkhas are widely distributed in arid-semiarid and also semihumid areas on the earth,which occupy a large proportion of the desert dunes in the global land surface. The formation and evolution of nebkhas are closely related to climate change,human activities and so on,therefore,nebkha is one of important objects in paleoclimate evolution research. Nebkhas mainly developed after late Holocene,and the reliable and high-resolution chronology and sedimentary sequence are very important to the reconstruction of nebkhas evolution process. There is no new technology breakthrough in nebkhas formation,evolution and chronology researches,and they are absence of the high-resolution chronology in the different developmental stages. In the prosent paper,we reviewed recent advances in the previous studies about nebkhas,and discussed the relations among developmental process,chronology,sedimentary sequence,evolution and regional environment. We suggested that researches on the chronology in different developmental stages,the high-resolution chronology and proxies,the formation and evolution of nebkhas are still needed more studies in reflecting the ancient sand activities and environmental changes in plateau inland basin.