Degradable effects of organic wastewater can be improved greatly by catalytic oxidation compared with the conventional chemical method. It is becoming an important way in the treatment of wastewater containing poor degradable organic pollutants. The developments and industrial application of several catalytic oxidation processes such as photo\|oxidation, homogeneous oxidation, heterogeneous oxidation(including electro\|catalytic oxidation), supercritical water oxidation in organic wastewater treatment are reviewed in this paper.