The present invention is applicable to the field of touch screens, providing a touch contact positioning method, system and video display terminal. The method includes the following steps of: acquiring the coarse positioning results by conducting a self-capacitance detection to an inductor in a capacitive touch screen, acquiring the accurate positioning results by conducting a mutual capacitance detection according to the coarse positioning results, and then determining the position of the touch contact according to the accurate positioning results. The embodiment of the present invention, byacquiring the coarse positioning results by conducting a self-capacitance detection to the inductor in the capacitive touch screen, acquiring the accurate positioning results by conducting a mutual capacitance detection according to the coarse positioning results, and determining the position of the touch contact according to the accurate positioning results, realizes the precise positioning of aplurality of touch contacts and solves the problem of 'ghost points' effectively with less time and complexity.