Nitroaromatics,as a kind of organic compounds,are a class of important chemical raw materials,which are also highly toxic pollutants with stable structures and difficult degradation.The main detection techniques for nitromatics were spectrophotometry,electrochemistry,high pressure liquid chromatography(HPLC),gas chromatography-electron capture detection(GC-ECD) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry(GC-MS).Among them,GC-ECD and GC-MS were more widely used because of their accuracy,sensitivity and wide application.In this paper,the research progress on aromatic compounds in different types of water matrixs in the aspects of sampling,pretreatment and determination methods were briefly reviewed.The new detection techniques for aromatic compounds were also prospected.