[Objective] In order to improve the understanding of people's perception and adaption to climate change, we attempt to review the progress in this field.[Methods] Recent relevant literatures about public perception and adaption behavior of climate change were extensively reviewed and analyzed. By the comparison of study contents, methods and respondents, the study progress of the public perception and adaption behavior of climate change were reviewed and forecasted, and flaws in the existing studies and the key points in future studies were listed.[Results] Current researches mainly focus on the examination of public's perception of climate change, including perception of climate trends(temperature, precipitation, disasters), climate change knowledge, phonological change, private adaptive measures, assessment of adaptive measures, the needs of policy and influencing factors of perception and adaption of climate change.[Conclusion] Under the background of the climate change, studies should be enhanced in the measurement of perception and adaption behavior of climate change, the interaction mechanism of perception and adaptation to climate change behavior, the discussion of general representative questions and regional problems, on the multi-disciplinary research, and management recommendations. The research framework involves initial climate data analysis and subsequent social enquiry and analysis, so it is important that has embodied a balance of natural and social science analysis. This trend is not only an innovative and empirical theory of the social dimension of climate change science, but also a need of national development strategy.