Abstract: With the aggravation of climate changes, typhoon has posed a major threat to the ecological security in China’s coastal areas. Among numerous countermeasures, the selection of wind-resistant tree species is the basis of landscape architecture planning. On basis of elaborating the harms of typhoon to coastal areas in China, this research reviews the current situation and development trend of selecting wind-resistant tree species at home and abroad, in the aspects of the survey and evaluation of trees after cyclone, canopy wind resistance morphological characteristics research, trunk wind load stress and wood property analysis, and the root structure characteristics. To comprehensively improve the wind resistance of landscape tree species in coastal areas, this paper puts forward suggestions on comprehensively analyzing the wind resistance factors of trees and scientifically matching wind-resistant tree species of plant communities.