Abstract: The meteorological satellite and satellite meteorology are new monitoring technology and discipline that gained quick development and great success in past decades. At present, the met eorological satellite plays the most important role in the earth-atmosphere monitoring system, whereas satellite meteorology is avery active field in the earth science. This paper reviews that the progress and achievements in the meteorological satellite developments and applications since the 70s of 20 century. (1) The history of China meteorological satellite development is introduced, with the focus being on the launch, operation and basic specifications of orbit and geostationary meteorological satellites. (2) The researches on the theory and data processing method of satellite remote sensing is reviewed, especially on the retrieval of temperature profile, cloud properties, aerosols, precipitation and cloud wind. (3) The achievement on the China satellite applications is described, including those in the weather analysis and forecast, numerical weather prediction, climate monitoring and short range climate fore cast. The recent development on the meteorological sat ellite data assimilation is also introduced.