The economic and effective pretreatment is a key to its recycling into useful building materials. The pretreatment such as washing, neutralizing with quick lime, grinding, floating, screening, calcination etc. have been studied. The effectiveness, problems and feasibility of pretreatment are analyzed. This paper presents the pretreatment principle of phosphogypsum utilization. If the phosphogypsum utilized is more than hundred thousand tones per year, the washing technology is recommended, otherwise, the technology of neutralizing with quick lime and grinding should be chosen.