Chinese medical diet, like foods for special dietary uses, can provide special or targeted physiological substances and nutrients for specific groups with scientific methods, so as to improve the basic nutrition metabolism of specific groups and reduce unnecessary metabolic burden .This article suggests that the traditional Chinese medicine diet with national characteristics and a long history should be integrated with the special diet food industry, so as to promote the rapid growth of the special diet industry with Chinese characteristics and enhance the international competitiveness of China's special diet food.