Abstract: Prevention of blindness and eye health is an important public health and social issue referred to people’s livelihood. Since new China was found, especially recent 20 years of “Vision 2020” initial implement, prevention of blindness and eye health has achieved a great of achievements. This paper is intended to briefly review the important achievements of blindness prevention and eye health, in order for promoting the development of the universal eye health, and to accommodate the needs for establishing the power socialist country. It includes the prevalence of blindness and visual impairment, the prevention and treatment of eye diseases (trachoma, cataract, other eye diseases), the establishment of ophthalmic medical service system and blindness prevention system.

Key words: prevention of blindness, eye health