Guidance and control is the key technique of the automatic carrier landing of the carrier based aircraft. This paper summarizes the research development of this technique. The approaching routes and several carrier landing modes are given. The principles and key techniques of the radar based guidance system and the satellite based guidance system are respectively described. Several carrier landing control techniques are mainly analyzed, including the control law design, direct lift control, thrust vectoring control, carrier deck prediction and compensation, automatic power compensation and carrier landing safe control. Finally, the future prospects of the guidance and control technique are summarized from the aspects of multi-system integrated carrier landing control and multi-mode fusion carrier landing techniques.