Major advances in studies of summer low temperature, such as its climatic features and its circulation features as well as the influence factors in Northeast Ch ina for recent 30 years are reviewed. Summer low temperature in Northeast China is a largescale climatic disaster which can persist longer and be influenced b y atmosphere general circulation systems and underlying surface. The studies of forecast for summer low temperature are simpler, so the mechanism and developing forecast system of summer low temperature in Northeast China will be most impor tant in the future studies.