With the rapid development of China's economy， the construction number of cooling tower in thermal/nuclear power plants in China keeps a rapid increase and the cooling tower structure tends to be ultra-high and super-large. The wind-induced shell stability and vibration effect have become key factors in the structural design and construction of cooling towers. A series of research progresses on wind-induced stability and wind-induced vibration effect of cooling towers are reviewed in this paper from the four aspects， including theoretical analysis， experimental simulation， numerical calculation and field measurement. It is demonstrated that the shell stability checking formulas based on uniformly-distributed circumferential wind loads are not suitable for the shell stability investigations of large cooling towers under the complex wind pressures. The necessity to establish the simulation criterion of dynamic flow at ultra-high Reynolds number adopted in the physical wind tunnel test based on the field measurements is emphasized. The field measurement of structural damping ratio values of cooling towers during the wind-induced dynamic analysis is suggested. In the future， it is urgent to carry out the studies on the shell instability performance and the mechanism of structural wind-induced effects under the actions of non-synoptic winds such as strong typhoons and tornadoes to meet the increasing design and construction demands of large cooling towers.