Abstract: This article reviewed a nearly 50-year history of the wild giant panda population surveys and population dynamic monitoring from 1967 to 2014.According to survey spatial scales,survey temporal spans,survey organizers and survey goals,a description was given of the types and characteristics of those surveys,as well as their methods and theoetical bases from the perspective of population ecology.At the end,analysis has been made of the trend and influential factors of the wild giant panda population since the 1970 s.