Abstract: The precipitation over eastern China tends to be extreme events. This peculiarity and its seasonal differences, climatic features and spatio-temporal patterns are mainly analyzed based on the observations during 1960 to 2017. Therewith, its relationship with global change, regional climatic and oceanic variability is discussed. The results show that the evolution of the precipitation extremes (PE) are closely related to the climatologic patterns of mean or total precipitation as well as peculiarities of concentration and persistence. The migration of the rain belt (RB) and the succession of rainy patterns (RP) are the essential factors influencing the formation of local differences and the spatio-temporal evolution of the PE. Under the background of climate change, the changes of PE intensity and frequency have good synergistic consistency. The PE in areas with high frequency also has high intensity especially in the south of Yangtze River. Otherwise, the local and seasonal differences of the PE intensity and frequency are obvious. The PE intensity and frequency increase obviously in northeast China and the northern north China in spring. The intensity and frequency of summer PE have been increasing in the south of the Yangtze River but decreasing in the northern areas for recent 60 years. In autumn, the PE intensity and frequency in northern China both increase slightly. And in winter they both increase in southern China and the Jiangnan area (the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River). Though the PE intensity increases significantly in northern China and the west of Inner Mongolia, the frequency does not change distinctively in winter. In the northern part of Northeast China, under the scenario of the intensity decreasing of winter PE, the long-term trend of the frequency still shows a significant increase. Particularly, the RB in summer has moved southward since the 1980s, and the RP is dominant from the northern and the middle patterns to the Yangtze River and the south China patterns. The PE in rainy belts highly clusters, and the PE impact increases significantly. In addition, the summer PE impaction in the north of the Yangtze River is more likely to decrease during the warm phase of Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO) and ENSO warm events. The weakening of East Asian summer monsoon is conducive to the frequent and cluster occurrence of summer PE in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, which tends to aggravate the disaster risk of the PE along with its intensity increase there.