Groundwater is one of the significant resources for living and utilization in agriculture,industry and ecological environment.The recharge and exploitation of groundwater aquifer is therefore an important component in the sustainable development and management of water resources.The recharge of shallow aquifer is subject to climate variances and changes.Research on impact of climate changes has extended from surface water to ground water.This not only benefits the proper evaluation of usable freshwater resources,but also helps the improvement of climate models and more comprehensive description of hydrological cycles.From this century,researchers in Europe and North America have started to work on quantitative evaluation methods for groundwater recharge in varied spatio-temporal dimensions.As for the impact of climate changes on water resources,they include the influence of human activities as well as climate changes on the recharge of groundwater.The situation in China,however,suffers from an inherent shortage at present.Either the diagnostic analysis of groundwater observation or the development of groundwater recharge models is in the initial stage,if there is any.This paper presented an introduction on recent advances of the research on groundwater recharge and the sensitivity of ground water to climate changes,with the aim to fill the gap and push the research in this field in China,especially in the impact of climate variances on water resources.