As the indispensable natural resources to the human production and living, climate resources and their development and utilization have most important significance to the economical society for sustainable development. In this paper, the status quo of climate resources and their utilization in China has been reviewed, with the major problems being pointed out. The development aims of rational exploitation have been discussed as follows: (1) Taking general and key regional censuses of climate resources, and evaluations of their carrying capacities; zoning the climate resources divisions based on the need of societal development. (2) Building the monitoring and evaluating systems of climate resources to study their evolution and impacts on the environment and societal economy. (3) Promoting the advanced and applicable technologies of climate resources, especially the utilization of solar and wind energy.