Cable-stayed bridge is a high-order hyperstatic structure. The size of cable force affects the stress of the structure greatly. The key problem to determine the rational completion status of cable-stayed bridges is how to control cable force on completion status. Surrounding this problem, domestic and foreign experts and scholars have done a lot of favorable work and obtained much achievement. On the basis of comprehensive reading domestic and foreign relative documentation, the author of this article classifies rationally the current researching achievement, comments and compares advantages and disadvantages of each method and lists two synthetic methods detail steps and puts forward the researching emphasis of the field will deflect to synthesis several methods to determine the rational completion status of cable-stayed bridges.