In this paper, the needs of community care for diabetic patients were studied, and the existing problems were summarized and analyzed. Four drawbacks on community care were pointed out, namely, lack of knowledge, insufficient service resources, deficiency of professional nursing staff, and inadequate management. There were also four lacks on diabetic patients, namely, lack of confidence, lack of attention, lack of knowledge and lack of compliance. Seven measures of community health care for diabetic patients were pointed out in this paper, which were to enhance the quality of personnel, to strengthen health education, to emphasize on psychological counseling, to enhance behavioral modification, to carry out medical consulting, and to implement the specific medical care and comprehensive intervention. Key words: Diabetes; Community care; Problems; Countermeasures