The National Standards for Nursing Teaching Quality（abbreviated as “National Standards”）is the first national standards for quality of higher education issued by the Ministry of Education of the People??s Republic of China. On the basis of the original “professional standards for undergraduate nursing education” and experience of the nursing program accreditation in the past 8 years，Nursing Professional Teaching Steering Committee completed the development of the“National standards”. This article mainly introduced the main connotation of “National Standards”and the significance of “National Standards”for the development of nursing.