Deep-water tractive current deposits found include(1)contour current deposits and (2)internal-tide and’ internal-wave deposits.  This paper summarizes the past,present states and latest developments of the study on deep-water tractive current deposits，and points out the existing problems and prospects.  The study on contour current deposits started earlier and has obtained a series of achievements which mainly include:(1)the establishment of recognition criteria of contour current deposits,(2)the discovery and study of contourite drifts，and (3)the study of ancient contour current deposits.  The study of
internal-tide and internal-wave deposits started just recently. Now we have discovered and studied systematically some internal-tide and internal-wave deposits and recognized four types of facies，and have also established three types of sedimentary models.  The main problems existing in the study of deep-water tractive current deposits are(1)unequilibrium of the study of contour current deposits,(2) lack of detailed and systematic study on internal-tide and internal-wave depostits,(3) the reliability of recognition criteria of deep-water tractive current deposits,(4) the origin of large-scale sediment wave in deep-water,and(5)the study of diageneses and petroliferous of deep-water tractive current deposits.The significant progress will be obtained in the study of deep-water tractive current deposits with the solution of these problems.