Abstract: Up-to-date, the remarkabl advances in a series of GPS/MET experimental programs to demonstrate potentiality and feasibility of GPS So unding of at mospheric temperature profiles, precipitable water and wind have been acquired in different countries. It has been shown that active limbsounding of at mosphere using Global position system (GPS) radio signal received in loweart horbit is able to offer the data sets of temperature profiles with the precision of 1-2℃ between 5-45 km, and to calculate the water vapor pressure from the measured ref ractivity if an temperature profile can be estimated independently. The measuring accuracy of at mospheric precipitable water (PW) from a GPS PW net work with high precision is better than 1-2 mm, and the observation is relatively unaffected by rain, cloud and aerosol. The advanced GPS windfinding system has also beent ested by a few of country, and when the radar windf inding was used as a reference the average deviation was about 0.5 m/s for GPS and 0.8 m/s for loranc. Finally, the prospects for the wide application of the GPS sounding of atmosphere to meteorological research and operations are given, in addition the strategy to develop the technology of GPS remo te sensing in China and to promote int ernational cooperation is also presented in this paper.