Antithrombotic method, ventricular rate control,electrical cardioversion and catheter ablation are the main methods for atrial fibrillation treatment. The use of catheter ablation provides a new method for atrial fibrillation treatment. With the deeper understanding of the mechanism for atrial fibrillation generation and maintaining, catheter ablation also achieved continuous developments, including atrial ablation, pulmonary vein trigger ablation, complex fractionated atrial electrogram ablation, and rotor ablation, etc. This paper reviewed the progress on different operation methods of cathether ablation for atrial fibrillation,hoping to provide new theoretical basis for treatment of atrial fibrillation.