Abstract: With the purpose of understanding the current long-term care policy and understanding its position,problems and developing trend with an institutional from the perspective of the transition. This paper reviews the main related papers,the government policy document and compares the national statistical data. Since the entrance of the 21 st century,the supply of long-term care needs the rapid development and now it is far from adequate. The construction of the long-term new care system has been started with capacity building ten years ago. Understanding the long-term care policy in current China,on one hand,the institutional care and the community care has both developed fast; but on the other hand,the absence of a stable policy scheme has more and more obstructed the sustainable development of the long-term care.