Abstract:During the last deglaciation, enormous changes occurred on the global surface. A series of abrupt climate changes occurred during this period in different ways and different parts of the world. The warming process and mechanism has been the focus of studies of paleoclimate changes, however, controversy still exists. This paper briefly reviews the development of paleoclimate and monsoon evolution since the last deglaciation, and it is pointed out that the continental shelf area is very sensitive to the global environmental changes. The shelf sediment also contains a wealth of climate/monsoon evolution information. Extraction and study of the proxies derived from the shelf sediments should be valuable. East Asian monsoon evolution history and its driving mechanism, the monsoon differences and interaction, monsoon-driven mechanism analysis in various time scales revealed by the sediments on the continental shelf are of great significance for regional and global change studies. It is suggested that the future work is to study the paleoclimate and the corresponding events in view of regional and even global changes, and more attention should be paid to the study of the continental shelf sediments.