【Objective】Continuous occurrence of winter and spring drought events in recent years has seriously threatened the safety production and grain increase of winter wheat in the north of China. This study focused on the main wheat growing areas of China, precipitation, no precipitation days and frequency of extreme meteorological drought trend in winter and spring from 1961 to 2010 and its possible impacts on wheat in wheat planting area in north of China.【Method】Trend analysis of precipitation, no precipitation days and frequency of extreme meteorological drought for the 1961-2010 period using data from 329 meteorological stations located in the wheat growing regions in the north of China. The linear trend and significance of precipitation and no precipitation days in different regions in north of China was analyzed using the methods of regression analysis, inverse distance weighted and robust F linear significant test. The precipitation, no precipitation days and frequency of extreme meteorological drought of interannual and decadal variation trend was analyzed. Based on the sliding average precipitation anomaly, the linear tendency of annual extreme drought frequency in winter from 1961 to 2010 was calculated, and the interannual variation trend of extreme drought frequency and changing trend of precipitation in different regions were analyzed for exploration of the temporal dynamic trend of drought. According to the GB/ T20481-2006 national standards of meteorological drought classification, the severe drought and specially drought of drought grade were defined as extreme drought. According to the different climate characteristics of wheat growing regions in China, the main wheat growing area is divided into six zones as follows in order to quantify the different drought trends in the north of China. ① The Northeast China spring wheat region: Heilongjiang Province, Jilin Province and Liaoning Province; ②The Inner Mongolia spring wheat region including the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. ③ The Northwest China spring wheat region including Gansu Province and Ningxia Autonomous Region. ④ The North China winter wheat region including Hebei Province, Shanxi Province, Shaanxi Province, Beijing and Tianjin. ⑤The Huang-Huai Plain winter wheat region including Shandong Province, Henan Province, Jiangsu Province and Anhui Province. ⑥ The middle and lower Yangtze River winter wheat region including Hubei Province, Hunan Province, Jiangxi Province, Zhejiang Province and Shanghai.【Result】 In the winter wheat growing region of North China and north of the Huang-Huai Plain, as well as in spring wheat area of Northwest China, the precipitations in winter and spring decreased in the last 50 years with a particular sharp decline after 1990, the frequency of extreme drought showed an increasing trend.