Consecutive precipitation extremes may cause more catastrophes than occasional extreme 9 events. They may pose more serious threats to the safety of people's lives and property. They also 10 can cause great damage to the healthy development of social economy. It is of practical significance 11 to explore this issue. In this work, a nonparametric approach based on stochastic ordering combined 12 with EI Barmi-McKeague test was employed, which is more flexible if the trend is non-monotonic 13 or more complex to model. The average summer consecutive precipitation in 31 provinces of China 14 were compared in three periods, 960-1965, 1985-1990 and 2010-2015. Based on this approach, the 15 results showed that, in 17 out of the 31 provinces, the consecutive precipitation in summer increase 16 stochastically from period 1 to period 2 or period 3, or increase stochastically from period 2 to period 17 3. These 17 provinces mainly located in Northwest and Southeast China. Given the increases in the 18 average summer consecutive precipitation and the high single consecutive precipitation of prov- 19 inces which located in the Southeast China and socio-economic vulnerability to such extremes in 20 China, the local government and relevant national departments should adopt more strategies to 21 alleviate and adapt to the increasing trend of consecutive precipitation extremes.