Abstract:The establishment and development process of modern phenology in China are reviewed in this paper,and an overview of the up-to-date research progress in modern phenology is also given.Modern phenology is playing a very important role in global warming research;phenology becomes a new clue in researches of global ecology and terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycle;new technology plays important roles in modern phenology research,especially the adapting of automatic monitoring technology has resulted in great progress in the data acquiring methods;the traditional phenology observation is still of much concern,but research objects are more fine,gradually developing towards microscopic direction.As compared with the rapid developing of international phenology,the phenology researches in China are encountering unprecedented challenges.Thus,Chinese researchers in phenology will shoulder heavy responsibilities in the future,and many fundamental researches remain to be deeply conducted.