With the intensification of global change,the evolution and development of extreme climate events and major disasters have become one of the hot issues in disaster research. On the basis of sorting out and analyzing the related literatures on the evolution of extreme climate events,the existing research results are summarized from three aspects: evolution stage,evolution mode and evolution analysis method,and the multi-dimensional research method,complexity,which is used to distinguish the complex evolution structure and coupling relationship of disaster events,is emphasized. The application of Complex (Network) in the analysis of extreme climate events. It is found that the current research on the evolution of extreme climate events is facing the following problems and challenges: we should pay attention to the complexity and integrity of the evolution of extreme climate events,strengthen the quantitative analysis of the evolution of extreme climate events,and strengthen the study on the mechanism of extreme climate events and the turn-out of the social system.