ObjectiveTo summary and analyze the actuality of application for the fast track (FT) in China. MethodsThe clinical literatures of FT in China were collected and obtained from the WanFang database and China Hospital Knowledge Database (from Jan. 2006 to Dec. 2014), and then the actuality of application for the 22 items of FT was analyzed. ResultsA total of 62 literatures were collected, and there were 58 hospitals and 2 944 cases who underwent colorectal operation included. In all of the 62 literatures, the programmes were carried out 15 items at most, and there were only 3 items (average 10.06 items) at least. There were some important FT programmes were poorly developed (less than 60.00%) which included:normal preoperative feeding (45.16%, 28/62), intake carbohydrate drinks up until 2 hours before operation (54.84%, 34/62), thoracic epidural analgesia (58.06%, 36/62), avoid the opioids (35.48%, 22/62), minimally invasive operation (58.06%, 36/62), no nasogastric intubation (53.22%, 33/62), establish discharge criteria (27.42%, 17/62), follow-up (14.52%, 9/62), and audit of clinical outcomes (1.61%, 1/62). And that, there were serious distortions to some FT programmes, such as:distorted the surgery with epidural anesthesia to the thoracic epidural analgesia (46.77%, 29/62), distorted the early remove nasogastric intubation postoperative to avoidance the nasogastric intubation (17.74%, 11/62), and the minimally invasive surgery was independent of FT (6.45%, 4/62)/control the fluid therapy intraoperatively only (6.45%, 4/62). ConclusionThe current situation of the FT is not optimistic in China, it has existed that the concept of FT is fuzziness, the measures are not standardized and the application of some important programmes are deficient.