Abstract: Objective The study WaS designed to further understand the epidemic feature of measles and the operation of measles monitoring system in Jiangxi Province．Methods An analy-sis was made on the conventional report system for communicable diseases of Jiangxi Province in 2004 and the suspected cases of measles reported theough the measles monitoring and repot sys-tem as well．Results There were 3300 cases of measles reported from measles monitoring system in 2004．Which were 4．92％less than from the conventional report system for communicable dis-eases No dead case WaS reported．And the incidence rate was 7．721/ Lakh. The measles cases were broadly distributed with epidemic features of sporadic and outbreak existing at the same time，and local measles outbreak influenced the measles incidence strength of the whole province．The cases were mainly in 92 counties(districts)of 10 cities of the whoIe province，,and the susceptible sea-Sons mainly from March t0 June．In which the incidence cases was 53．82％of the total．And the incidence mainly among preschoolers and pupils，which were 77.61％of the total cases Among the cases，there were 60,30％without history of immunity 0r history record of immunity，of which 66.91％were children aged from 8 months to 15 years．Conclusion The routine measles immu-nization and re-inoculation work of Jiangxi province should be strengthened，and exerting efforts to improve the monitoring quality 0f measles monitoring system will be the main task of JiangXi province for accelerating measles control．