Syntactic parsing is a fundamental problem of natural language processing, and statistical syntactic parsing based on treebank gradually becomes the mainstream techniques of modern syntactic parsing following the building of large scale annotated treebanks. Firstly, the main treebanks and the main methods to measure syntactic parsing system performances were described. Secondly, the main statistical syntactic parsing models and the current researches on the Chinese syntactic parsing were presented and analyzed. Finally, the problems and the future study trends of statistical syntactic parsing were discussed and summarized. Is is pointed that Chinese syntax analysis methods are not suitable for the features of Chinese, and they do not effectively characterize the essential features of Chinese, thus the performances of syntactic parsing of Chinese are far below the performances of English. To integrate semantic information in syntactic parsing and to establish a joint syntactic and semantic statistical parsing model based on. semantic analysis will be a important study direction of syntactic parsing.