In the background of global warming, high impact tropical cyclone events occurred frequently and disasters got severer all over the world. In China, severe weather represented by landfalling typhoons is growing apparently. The landfalling typhoons tend to be more intense, and the number of severe landfalling typhoons is evidently increaseing. More landfalls are concentrated in a relatively short time, resulting in a significant decrease in the period of landfall activity. In this study, the characteristics of the typhoon induced disasters in China are analyzed; the status and problems of typhoon observations, forecasting and warning systems are discussed. Suggestions and measures of the improvement in the typhoon observation, forecasting and warning systems during the period of rapid development of social economy in China are proposed as well.