The U.S.vision health initiative is a public health program to prevent blindness,reduce visual impairment and improve visual health jointly developed by the U.S.Department of Health & Human Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The initiative has proposed a coordinated program in the perspective of policies,guidelines,facilities,talents etc,with foresighted-ness and innovation,trying to make full use of the whole society’s endeavor to enhance the nation’s visual health.This paper aims to introduce the U.S.vision health initiative to provide reference to China’s nation condi-tioned visual health initiative which may be developed in the near future,and can also be the anti-blind basis for policy-makers,research workers and medical personnel.