Abstract: Objective  To investigate the basic information of the hospital for tuberculosis (TB) control, and to make use of the priorities to serve the national TB control program.  Methods  The questionnaire was designed by Administration Office of Clinical Center on TB, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute. Ministry of Health gave an official notification to 31 provinces (municipality, autonomous region) (not including Taiwan,Hongkong and Macao) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the hospital at provincial and prefecture level, which have 30 TB beds or above, filled in the questionnaire and reported to the higher administrative levels, the results were inputted into the EpiData database, SPSS 11.0 software was used for analysis.   Results  In 2009, there were 203 hospitals for TB control with 30 TB beds or above in China. Among of them, 12.8%(26/203) were at provincial level, 87.2%(177/203) at prefecture level; 45.8%(93/203) were located in eastern area，41.4%(84/203) in middle area and 12.8%(26/203) in western area. 17.2% (35/203) were full allocation institutions, 64.5%(131/203) were balance allocation institution and 9.4%(19/203) were self-supporting unit, others were 8.9%(18/203). There are 18 899 staff engaged in TB control, among of whom 14 456 were professional personnel. 3.7%(528/14 456) had master degree or above，37.7%(5456/14 456) had bachelor degree，35.1%(5078/14 456) had junior college degree and 23.5%(3394/14 456) had technical secondary school degree or below；3.5%(508/14 456) were senior title，10.0%(1448/14 456) were vice senior title，32.6%(4711/14 456) were middle title，50.5%(7300/14 456) were primary title or below, and 3.4%(489/14 456)had no title. There were 24.0 thousands TB beds, outpatient amount was 2.5 million and inpatient amount was 1.3 million in all hospitals for TB control. The average hospitalization time of TB patients was 27 days, the average hospitalization expenses was 6631 Yuan, bed utilization rate was 87.0%.    Conclusion  The hospital of TB control has many advantages such as the human recourses, tuberculosis wards, diagnosis and treatment capacity etc. It is suggested that the hospital for TB diagnosis and treatment should be involved into the national tuberculosis control program as soon as possible，and provide supports for new tuberculosis control system.

Key words: Hospitals, special, Health manpower, Hospital bed capacity, Data collection