Abstract: Global warming has attracted much more attention all over the world. In this paper, the new progress of the studies on climate change in Xinjiang since the 1990s is reviewed from the aspects of fact, impact, countermeasure and prediction of climate change. The results are as follows: (1) Holistically, both temperature and precipitation in Xinjiang have been increased, and climate in Xinjiang has trended towards warming-wetting type since recent 50 years; (2) Such climate change results in a redistribution of water and heat resources in Xinjiang and brings about a tremendous effect on water resources, ecological environment, agriculture, etc.; (3) The ecosystem vulnerability assessment is a quantitative evaluation on ecological environment. The studies on it, however, are so insufficient and need to be further explored. Moreover, there is a big uncertainty of predicting climate change, and all the models of predicting climate change are need to be improved so as to increase the prediction accuracy.

Key words: climate change, countermeasure, agriculture, variation prediction, Xinjiang