Abstract: China is one of the countries that experience the most severe typhoon disasters in the world. It is also the country that has the earliest record of typhoon disasters. To develop typhoon monitoring and forecasting technology on the basis of better understanding of typhoon activities is the only way to improve the mitigation of typhoon-induced disasters. The nationwide organized typhoon joint prevention and cooperative research began in China in the 1950s and 1970s, respectively. A relatively complete national cooperation mechanism such as the national typhoon conference and scientific seminar has been established successively and has been functioning until present. It has achieved fruitful results. Particularly, it promotes the development of typhoon study in China, and lays the foundation for the national typhoon disaster joint prevention system. This article provides a brief review and overview of typhoon prevention and cooperative research in China, aiming to promote the inheritance and development of typhoon joint prevention and cooperative research mechanisms with Chinese characteristics.