Abstract: Agricultural climatic division is one of the effective approaches for the reasonable use of the agricultural climatic resource,so it is widely focused and utilized. In this paper,the research progress on agricultural climatic division methods in China was discovered from the index selection methods of agricultural climatic division,agricultural climatic division methods and the application of geographic information system on the agricultural climatic division,and the advantages and disadvantages for the different division methods were discussed. Furthermore,potential directions were pointed out in this research field to provide some reference for researchers.

Key words: Agricultural climatic division, Agricultural climatic division, Method, Progress, Index, Geographic information system