Abstract: In the late 1990's, a new commission on the High-Resolution Climatic Record belonging to the China Quaternary Research Association was founded. This commission aims at organizing high-resolution records such as tree rings, ice cores, corals, varves, stalagmites and historical documents to study paleoclimate changes especially the ones occurred within the mostly recent history. In the first regular meeting in 2001, Chinese scientists planned to establish several available millennial or longer high-resolution proxy climate records in 3 to 5 years. Since then, several Chinese datasets have submitted to the WDC (the World Data Center) and are available to scientists all over the world, such as 1)winter half-year temperature reconstruction for the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and Yangtze River, China, during the past 2 000 years (Ge Q. et al.The Holocene, 2003, 13: 933 ～ 940), 2)general temperature records in China during the last two millennia (Yang B. et al.Geophysical Research Letters,2002, 29: 381 ～ 384), 3)2 326-year tree-ring record of climatic variability on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (Zhang Q-B. et al. Geophysical Research Letters,2003, 30: 1 739 ～ 1 742) and 4)2 650-year stalagmite record of warm season temperature of Beijing (Tan Ming et al. Geophysical Research Letters, 2003, 30: 1 617 ～ 1 620). Comparing the records from China with others from the Northern Hemisphere, we reveal pronounced cyclic rapid warming on centennial-scale: each episode of warming followed a multi-centennial-cooling trend similar to the saw-toothed alternation of glacial/interglacial periods. All centennial to sub-millennial scale cycles could be connected to solar variation cycles of about 208a, 350a, 700a and 950a. The results well correlate with different records from the Northern Hemisphere, indicating that the periodic alternation between cool and warm periods on a sub-millennial scale had a sub-hemispherical influence.