Abstract:Eruption of natural disasters constantly poses challenges to underwriting capacity of the insurance industry and creating a catastrophe insurance system has become an important issue of the industry. Development of catastrophe insurance products requires insurers to have a strong solvency level as a guarantee to make high claim payment amount in case of catastrophic losses. Making adequate reserves for catastrophe liabilities is an important guarantee for insurers to uphold its contract obligations. The paper made an analysis of the irrationality of the current reserving method for catastrophe insurance products under the current accounting system, and offered many suggestions on how to improve on the reserving method for China′s catastrophe insurance products. Key words:catastrophe insurance; catastrophe reserve; insurance reserve; insurance accounting [编辑:郝焕婷]