Deep-water clastic deposition study based on simple deep-water fan depositional models was proven to meet great challenge, and so this paper try to recognize the deposition of the Pearl River Deep-water Fan System using three hierarchies "source-conduit-sink" coupling analysis, which divides controlling depositional factors into macro-, meso- and micro-hierarchy to analyze the Pearl River deep-water fan system. This method emphasizes analyzing macro-hierarchy geological conditions controlling the development of the Pear River Deep-water Fan System, describing meso-hierarchy deep-water depositional architecture models under sequence stratigraphy study,and recognizing sedimentary source, feeding channel, fan micro-architecture and composing, depositional process, depositional rheology, reservoir and trap conditions of the Pearl River Deep-water Fan System by micro-hierarchy coupling response analysis. Compared with traditional fan models, this method would help better understand the development and evolution of the Pearl River Deep-water Fan System in the aspects of multiply hierarchies.