By the end of 2012, the Beidou Satellite Navigation System (BDS) has covered the Asia Pacific region, the gradual replacing of GPS with BDS， which is the main detection approach in ground water vapor research， becomes an important direction for meteorological servicce. The construction of reference stations of the BDS water vapor and ionosphere monitoring system is introduced emphatically by means of the existing GPS base stations in Hubei Province, including the existing GPS base stations, as well as the location selection, detecting environmental testing, and equipment installation of reference stations for the BDS water vapor and ionosphere monitoring system.As the first BDS water vapor and ionosphere monitoring system in China, the building of Hubei Province BDS reference stations has certain referential value for future BDS reference station construction.