A Brief Introduction to

China Meteorological Administration Training Centre

Subordinated to China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China Meteorological Administration Training Centre (CMATC) is derived from Beijing Meteorological College, which was founded in 1955 and changed into CMATC in early 1999. As a higher education & training organization, and the national base for higher continued education and on-the-job training in the meteorological field, CMATC is an important part of the basic meteorological operation systems. Since 2002, partial functions of CMA Library, CMA International Cooperation Service Centre, CMA Institute of Strategic Development & Overall Planning have merged into CMATC. In April, 2003, CMATC became Beijing Component of WMO Regional Meteorological Training Centre Nanjing.

CMATC is mainly engaged in continued education for the administrative staff at middle or higher levels and the professionals with intermediate and senior titles in China meteorological departments; training on new and high technology; training of operational backbones and instructors, compilation of meteorological training materials and guidance to the training centers in the provincial meteorological bureaus. Besides, CMATC also undertakes the tasks about research on meteorological information, scientific and technological consultation, study of meteorological soft science. Meanwhile, it is responsible for the meteorological foreign affairs services of CMA, and the training of meteorological professionals and managerial staff from Asia and other developing countries.

For years, CMATC has focused on the development of meteorological cause of China, expanding training domains, trying hard to improve the qualities of training and building flagship training courses. Until now, a system of meteorological continued training and on-the-job training at different levels and of different types has been formed. A distance education & training system with meteorological characteristics has been formed. The international meteorological training and international influence have been strengthened and expanded. In recent years, CMATC has reinforced the building of training capability and facilities, making the training levels higher and higher and course types more and more. By the end of 2006, the accumulative training classes totaled 400 with more than 300,000 person\day, and distance education reached 90,000 person\times.

CMATC has gathered many middle-aged and young academic backbones as well as a lot of scholars and experts, who are rich in knowledge and rigorous in scientific research. Some experts famous at home and abroad are invited as part-time professors. CMATC has also established the cooperative relations with some institutes, colleges and universities. Now, CMATC has built up many standard classrooms with advanced equipments such as the  Integrated Lecture Theatre, Training Classroom of Doppler Weather Radar，Training Classroom of Weather Prediction & Forecast, which can provide participants with excellent training and study environment. Meanwhile, CMATC has the ability to guarantee trainees’ daily-life services such as accommodation, transportation, etc.. The library keeps over 200,000 books and 1000 kinds of periodicals or more. The website of the library can offer users quick and convenient access to their needed information and references. 

To become a national base for meteorological education and training to be known as “Internationally Advanced, Domestically First-Class”, CMATC will keep with the pace of Chinese meteorological services by following the Comments Made by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China on Accelerated Development of the Chinese Meteorological Service, adopting the outcomes of Chinese meteorological development strategy and enhancing the restructured meteorological operational and technical systems, on the context of which CMATC will build a new education and training operational and technical framework, set up a resource sharing platform for climate monitoring system and forecast prediction training, meteorological distance education & training, in addition to meteorological technological data and information. Apart from those, CMATC will turn into a training base for those administrative personnel as well as the professionals engaged in climate monitoring system and meteorological prediction, so as to support and guarantee the sustainable development of China meteorological services.