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Nowadays, more than 160 granitic plutons have been confirmed to form in Caledonian ( including Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian), since Longhui and Shangyou plutons in Jiangxi were firstly found in the 1950s. Among them, only 14 plutons are genetically related to the polymetallic mineralizations (major W with minor Mo, Cu, Sn, and Au), and 11 plutons are related to the REE mineralizations. Previous studies on Caledonian granites were mainly concentrated on the characteristics of petrology, geochemistry, and tectonic dynamics, but hardly on the mineralization. Based on 800 mineralization and crystallization ages, the data of wholerock elements of 1 248 samples, the whole-rock Sr-Nd isotopes of 428 samples, and the zircon Lu-Hf isotopes of 2 352 analytical spots, which were collected from 280 papers and theses, four main conclusions about metallogenic characteristics of Caledonian granites were summarized as follows: CD 440- 420 Ma is the peak of magmatic activity and metal mineralization; @ Metallogenic granites are mainly focused in Dayaoshan and north-northeast areas of Guangxi, and their source materials and differentiation degrees are all different with each other; @ REE forming granites are primarily concentrated in Wuyi and Nanling areas, and most of the former experienced the metamorphism, but the latter did not; © Compared with Ordovician and Devonian granites, Silurian granites have the largest distribution area, the broadest lithologies, and the complicated source materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]