Abstract: Urban waterlogging caused by long duration heavy rainfall events has become a serious problem in urban safety construction and development in China. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the spatial evolution characteristics of different long duration heavy rainfall events. In this study, the precipitation datasets of 545 meteorological stations in China during 1961-2017 years were collected. From two attributes of rainfall amounts and rainfall days, the aggregate characteristics, trend and interannual variability to analyze the spatial pattern of different long duration heavy rainfall and total rainfall events. The results showed that: Firstly, the spatial pattern of different long duration heavy rainfall and total rainfall events over in China were higher in the Southeast China than in the Northwest China. With the increasing of rainfall duration, the spatial distribution of different long duration heavy rainfall events and total rainfall events with higher magnitude gradually converged to the southeastern coastal areas, and the spatial differentiation characteristics tended to decrease. Under the influence of autumn rainfall in the West China, the total rainfall amounts and days in the West China are higher than those in other regions of the same latitude. Secondly, different long duration heavy rainfall amounts and days in China were increasing mainly in the Southeast China, but not in the Northwest China. The trend of total rainfall amounts was increasing in the Southeast and Northwest China, but decreasing in the transitional zone between them. With the increasing of rainfall duration, the decreasing trend zone extended to the Southeast China and Northwest China. The trend of total rainfall days in different duration was increasing in the North China and decreasing in the South China. Thirdly, the interannual variability of heavy rainfall amounts and days over 2 days in China were the greatest in the ecotone between agriculture and animal husbandry and its vicinity, while the interannual variability of heavy rainfall amounts and days over 3 days are high in the Southeast China and low in the Northwest China. The interannual variability of total rainfall amounts and days are mainly high in the South China and low in the North China, and with the increasing of rainfall duration, the region with greater interannual variability expanded from North China to South China.