Abstract: This paper summarizes in detail some advances in recent years about the ore-forming tectonic environment of VHMS type, SEDEX type and VSHMS type massive sulfide deposits, on which VHMS type deposit emphasizes three aspects as follows: the spatial and temporal distribution regularities of VHMS type ore deposits which occurred in intra-arc or backarc rift; metallogenic knowledge acquired from contrasting of ancient global VHMS type deposits; summary on the characteristics of lithological types and rock association, and general evolutionary processes of magma from modern seabed hydrothermal areas controlled under trench-island arc-backarc basin tectonic system. SEDEX type deposit emphasizes the metallogenic geodynamic environment from shale-hosted massive sulfide deposits of Proterozoic northeastern Australia. It is different from traditional understandings that these super-large size deposits do not occur in the intra-continental rift or aulocogen tectonic environments, whereas occurred in far-field backarc continental extension basin under plate convergent process, and it is especially pointed out that the paleaozoic typical SEDEX type deposit, such as Sullivan, Red dog, is also regarded as the same metallogenic geodynamic setting as their Proterozoic counterparts. Apart from this, these deposits under the tectonic environment related to convergent plate have more important ore-finding prospect. VSHMS type deposit was concerned much more in the latest ten years, although it has the similar ore ccurrence and metallogenic process as those deposits mentioned above, the different metallogenic tectonic environments, generally occurring in the transition tectonic setting between VHMS type and SEDEX type deposit, making it more important implication for tectonic setting. Accordingly, under convergent plate tectonic setting, from the plate boundary to far-field backarc intra-continental extension basin, a metallogenic sequence was established, i.e, VHMS→VSHMS→SEDEX.