In recent years, the disastrous weather, such as heavy rainfall and severe convection occur frequently in China, and vortices is one of the important weather systems that produce these disastrous weathers. In order to improve the understanding and prediction accuracy of the mechanism of vortices, and their producing heavy rainfall and severe convective weathers in China, this paper mainly summarizes the important research results of three types of vortices (Tibetan Plateau vortex, Southwest vortex and Dabie vortex) along the Yangtze River basin, Northeast cold vortex and Central Asian vortex in northern China in recent ten years. This paper mainly reviews the identification methods, statistical characteristics of spatial and temporal distribution, three-dimensional structure of these vortices, as well as the formation mechanism of heavy rainfall and severe convection weathers associated with the vortices in the past ten years. Finally, a brief discussion and outlook are given on the future directions in research and forecasting related to vortex systems and their weathers.