Tea［Camellia sinensis （L.） O.Kuntze］germplasms are strategic resources ensuring the high quality development of tea industry， and raw materials enabling the original innovation in tea science and technology， breeding and development of new products with special characteristics.Studies on tea germplasms are of great value and significance considering the relevance on the innovation and sustainability of tea seed industry.Yunnan lies in the Southwest China，the long history of tea growing and the unique climate and geographical conditions of low latitude plateau have bred rich tea germplasm resources， a large number of wild and cultivated ancient tea plants are extensively distributed in Yunnan province， which is the origin center of tea plant in the world and the province with the largest species， quantity and distribution of tea group plant，after 60 years of research， with the hard work of scientific and technological workers and the active support of relevant departments， Yunnan tea germplasm resources have achieved fruitful results in the investigation and collection， conservation and cataloguing， identification and evaluation， and innovative utilization， and a series of significant progress has been made.This paper systematically expouned the main progress and existing problems of Yunnan tea germplasm resources research in the past 60 years，meanwhile，the future development direction of tea germplasm resources was discussed and prospected， which provided a reference for the research on tea germplasm resources.