中国建有世界上最早的气象台。公元1385年，明朝在南京建立观象台，比英国格林尼治观象台（建于1670年）早三个世纪。

China boasts the world’s earliest observatory, built in Nanking in 1385 in the Ming Dynasty (1368 A.D.-1644 A.D.), three centuries ahead of the Greenwich Observatory built in Britain in 1670.