Abstract:Based on the daily precipitation data of 612 weather stations in China from 1961 to 2010, the spatial and temporal variation trends of annual and seasonal precipitation amount in ten river basins of China were analyzed by the geographic information system ArcGIS. Results show that precipitation in China concentrated mainly in Pearl river basin, Southeast area basin and Yangtze river basin, but seldom occurred in Northwest area basin. The distribution of seasonal precipitation was highly similar to that of annual precipitation, which all presented the most precipitation in summer and the least in winter. The annual precipitation trends show that the Northwest area basin become wet but the Haihe river basin and Yellow river basin become dry. Moreover, the seasonal precipitation trends show that the Southwest area basin, Songhua river basin and Northwest area basin become wet in spring, Southeast area basin and Yangtze river basin become wet but Haihe river basin and Southwest area basin were drying out in summer, Northwest area basin become wet but Yangtze river basin, Yellow river basin and Huaihe river basin were drying out in autumn, Songhua river basin, Northwest area basin and Yangtze river basin become wet in winter.