Abstract: Due to the peculiarity of the times, before 1949 there were full of ups and downs in the making of meteorological stations of our country in terms of the background of their establishment. Their development progress is very complicated, bearing multi-elementary characteristics of semi-colonialism and semi-feudalism. Before the Revolution of 1911, meteorological stations were mostly set up by foreigners. Towards the end of the Qing Dynasty, weather observatories were run by some agriculture and forest experimental yards.After the founding of “the Republic of China”, meteorological stations in China ushered in a new era in terms of their construction. Owing to wars, social unrest, shaky and unstable economy, the construction course was tortuous and unbalanced. Not until the middle of the 20’s and 30’s of the 20th century did meteorological stations enter into a prosperous period, thanks to the active promotion of “the Central Observatory” and “the Meteorological Institution of the Central Research Institute” at that time.The War of Resistance against Japan broke out in 1937. As a result, many local meteorological stations were destroyed or forced to stop their operation. However, meteorological stations for the purpose of national defense and aviation or in the service of militarily meteorological safeguard became the mainstay of the meteorological station net in that period.