Obtaining all kinds of geophysical parameters to meet the demands of user application(including weather forecasting,environmental inspecting,global change research) is the principal goal for every country to develop meteorological satellites.Meteorological satellite databases,providing all kinds of user application requirements by a way of quantitative index,are helpful in the evaluation of the satellite observing capacity and promote the future development of satellites.A review is given on the development processes of Chinese meteorological satellites and its user requirements,and the necessity of establishing Chinese meteorological satellite(user) requirement database is discussed.The investigation of the Chinese meteorological satellite user requirements is carried out by using the method recommended by WMO to establish the environmental satellite requirement database.The results indicate that the study of Chinese meteorological satellite user requirement is insufficient.The direction of the further study is outlined.