Based on 4 230Th dates and 370 stable oxygen isotope ratios (δ18O) obtained from a stalagmite collected from Yuhua Cave, Jiangle, Fujian Province, and combined with the age calibration of the top 100 years using the annually band counting stalagmite from Heshang Cave, an high-resolution oxygen isotope profile of the past 500 years was established. Comparison of the stalagmite δ18O record with instrumental precipitation data at Yong’an in the past 60 years indicates a high parallelism between the δ18O record and the total summer months precipitation, suggesting that the stalagmite δ18O is a good proxy for the local summer monsoon precipitation