This paper presents a review of the researches on diabetic renal disease. 7 Fields of this disease are concerned:nomenclature according to traditional Chinese medicine（TCM）

etiology and pathogenesis

diagnostic criteria

clininal stages

evaluation of curative effect

treatment with clinical syndrome differentiation

and clinical trial.The authors point out that 1.TCM nomenclature of diabetic renal diseaes and the criteria of diagnosis

clinical stages and evaluation of curative effect must be unified:2.the key method to improve the clinicalcurative effect of diabetic disease is the clinical and laboratory researches of its etiology

pathogenesis

and treatment according to clinical syndrome differentiation with DME and basic theories of TCM; 3.the treatment according to clinical syndrome and stage differentiation relatively coincides with the nature of the disease

which is a good way to discover effective methods to prevent and treat diabetic renal disease.