A lot of plant promoters have been identified and used in the plant transgenic engineering.The characteristics of various cis-regulatory elements of plant promoters,such as TATA-box,transcription start point and upstream elements,and different types of the plant promoter,such as constructive promoter,tissue-specific promoter and inducible promoter,as well as bi-direction promoter,alternative promoter and linked promoter will be described or analyzed in this present paper.