Abstract: The influences of the heat source and the weather systems over the Tibetan Plateau on China’s disaster weather are always the key and difficult point of Plateau meteorology. The new progress are reviewed in this paper in the last 10 years from four aspects, including the key areas and the precursory signal of affecting the disaster weather with the heat source and the weather systems over the Plateau, the basic structure and variation characteristics and activity mechanism of the Tibetan Plateau Vortex (TPV) and the Southwest China Vortex (SWCV), the relationship between the heat source and the weather systems over the Plateau and its influence on torrential rain weather, and the analysis, diagnosis, prediction techniques of the disaster weather based on the Plateau influence. And it is pointed out there are still some problems in the influence of the Plateau land-air process, the distribution and the evolution characteristics of the weather systems, the Plateau-influencing mechanism for the disaster weather and the layout of observation and experiment of Plateau meteorology. Finally, the future development trends about the Plateau-influencing disaster weather are emphasized based on the integrated observation system of Plateau meteorology, the variation theory of the Plateau weather and forecasting technique of the Plateau weather.