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Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can cause great harm to environment and human health. At present, the annual emission of VOCs in China has reached the same level as that of NOx and SO2 and already been classified as one of the major atmospheric pollutants. Among various VOCs elimination methods, catalytic combustion is regarded as a highly efficient and green VOCs elimination method because it can transform VOCs mo-leculars into H2O and CO2. Additionally, VOCs catalytic combustion is very fitful for the continous removal of the VOCs with low concentration in a closed space. The structure of active sites of VOCs catalytic combustion catalysts can be dramatically decided by their preparetion methods, and thus the different preparation methods can directly affect the catalytic performance of these catalysts. The preparation methods, such as impregnation method, sol-gel method, co-precipitation method, deposition-precipition, grafting method, hydrothermal synthesis method and microemulsion method, are most commonly used to prepare VOCs catalytic combustion catalysts. In the current paper, the difference among the preparation methods for VOCs catalytic combustion catalysts was focused on, in order to present the applicability of these preparation methods to the adjustment of the active sites structure and their effect on the catalytic performance of VOCs catalytic combustion catalysts. This work would provide a prospect, which was valuable for achieving highly efficient VOCs catalytic combustion catalysts, of the relationship between the different preparation methods and different catalyst structures along with different catalytic performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]