Abstract:By using the monthly average precipitation and temperature data of 19 meteorological stations in Gansu Province from 1960 to 2018, the spatio-temporal evolution characteristics of drought events at different time scales over the past 58 years in Gansu Province were analyzed by means of Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index(SPEI), penman-monteith model and wavelet analysis. The results show that the monthly drought frequency was the highest in March and the lowest in February. The drought was most serious in autumn, followed by spring. The trend of drought is the slowest in winter and the fastest in spring. In recent 58 years, the SPEI index in Gansu Province has been on a downward trend, and the annual scale SPEI index has existed for 8, 12 and 26 years. The distribution of drought frequency on annual scale and monthly scale is consistent. The frequency in the eastern part of Hexi corridor is lower than that in Gannan prefecture, and higher in the northern part of Jiuquan and the eastern and central parts of Gansu Province. On the seasonal scale, the frequency is the higher in the south of Lanzhou and Wuwei, and the lowest in Qingyang in spring. In summer, the frequency is highest in Baiyin and northern Wuwei, and lowest in central Zhangye, northern Baiyin and Linxia, Qingyang and Pingliang regions. The highest frequency in autumn is in the east of Lanzhou, the northeast of Dingxi and Jiayuguan, and the lowest is in the north of Jiuquan, Zhangye and Wuwei and the middle of Pingliang. Winter high value area in Pingliang, low value area in Wuwei and Gannan. The drought intensity was highest in Zhangye, followed by Jiuquan, Qingyang and Baiyin, and lowest in southwest Gansu. The degree of drought in Jiuquan and Jiayuguan is increasing year by year. The drought rate in the southeast of Gansu is slower than that in the northwest. The rate of drought is the slowest in the central and western regions, and there is a wetting trend in the northern part of Gannan and the southwestern part of Wuwei.