The occurrences of serious natural disasters bring about serious challenges to the task of archival document conservation and preservation. When confronted with this reality, countries all over the world are advancing extensive and intensive research to cope with this severe situation. How about the research status concerning this topic at home and abroad? What achievements did they obtain? What can we learn from other countries? What shortages are still existed in our country? Etc, all these mentioned topics are presented and answered in this paper.