Abstract: From the aspects of the instruments for the chemical vapor generation, the main factors affecting the efficiency of vapor generation, the combination with separation and enrichment technique and the new vapor generation technology, a review on application of chemical vapor generation for sample introduction technology to atomic spectrometry in years from 2008 to 2017 was presented, including vapor generation based on tetrahydroborate reactions, photo chemical vapor generation, dielectric barrier discharge vapor generation and electrochemical vapor generation (95 ref. cited).