Abstract:The APHRO grid precipitation data was used to calculate SPI series. Taking the continuity of time and space into account, a identifying method of large-scale drought events featureswas formulated, which takes 10% of Chinese land area as a minimum threshold of a large-scale drought event, and gives the criteria of spatial continuity and temporal continuity of the affected area of drought events. At the same time, with the recognition method of droughtcenterand calculation method of drought intensity, the area, duration, intensity and the drought index definitions and event identification process were given. And 69 long-scale drought events in China from 1961 to 2015 were assessed, which conclude that the average area index, average drought duration and average drought intensity are 30.49%, 8.15 months and -4.192 in China from 1961 to 2015. In addition, a persistent drought event occurred in North China from 1998 to 2002 was reanalyzed. Results show that notonly North China were affected by this drought, but Northwest China, Northeast China, Southwest China and Southeast China etc. Specifically, four large-scale droughts occurred in China from 1998 to 2002.