Pollen-based quantitative climate reconstruction is one of the most important methods using terrestrial paleoenvironment proxies. As an effective quantitative parameter for revealing the ecosystem response to climate changes, pollen data and related profound studies on quantitative paleoclimate reconstruction are significant for better understanding the glacial-interglacial environment changes and paleomonsoon histories. In this paper, we review the early development of the methods of pollen-based quantitative climate reconstruction after a brief historical summary. All published documents of pollen-based climate reconstruction in China and adjacent areas are collected and organized. It is shown that the most popular methods used for climate reconstruction are transfer function (TF) and modern analogue technique (MAT) in the recent decades. So far, the number of quantitative climate reconstruction archives based on pollen data for Quaternary period is at least 50 sites, most of which covers only the Holocene period. The most common climate parameters used in the reconstructions are mean annual temperature, annual precipitation,July and January temperatures. According to the data integration of temperature anomaly in China and adjacent areas, it is suggested that the Early Holocene at 10.0~7.2cal.ka B.P. is a transitional stage into the megathermal period, but characterized by strong oscillations and large differences among regions. The average values for mean annual temperature during the Early-Mid Holocene are generally 1.0~1.5℃ higher than that of present-day. Temperature gradually decreased from 4.1cal.ka B.P. and more significantly decline since 2.1cal.ka B.P. The data integration for annual precipitation is based on the values of standardization which reveals not only inconsistent changes among different sites, but also disagreement in comparison with stalagmite oxygen isotopes for the period between the Last Deglacial to 7.0cal.ka B.P. However, the trend of precipitation reconstruction is likely coherent with the stalagmite result since 6.0cal.ka B.P., in particular for the monsoonal rainfall decrease since 4.2cal.ka B.P. With the improvement of dating precision and techniques of quantitative reconstruction,as well as the enlargement of modern pollen reference samples and resource sharing of Chinese and international pollen database,pollen analysis has become now an irreplaceable method for Quaternary paleoeclimate studies. According to the new advance of statistic techniques, there is no doubt that palynology will make better contribution to the Quaternary quantitative climate studies both in regional and global scales.