Abstract: Objective : To identify any significant change in age at diagnosis and the clinicopatho-logical or demographic characteristics of women diagnosed with cervical cancer in Jiangxi over the past 10 years. Methods : The clinico-pathological and demographic features of 168 women with invasive cervical cancer diagnosed in 1989 (group 1) were compared with that of 253 women diagnosed in 1999(group 2)in the Jiangxi Gynaecology and Obstetrics Hospital during the two periods (n=421). The age groups were stratified into 10 year intervals, age<40 years, 40-49 years,50-59 years and ≥60 years. Results : The mean age at diagnosis was 57.6±10.7 years in group 1 and 50.5±13.0 years in group 2,respectively (P<0.001). There was no significant difference between two groups in histological type and grade of cancers. However, group 2 presented significantly more earlier stage cancer cases than that of group 1, 22.9% of patients in group 2 had stage lb disease, compared with only 2.4% in group 1 (P<0.05). The older patients in both groups had more pregnancies and births than younger patients (P<0.05). Conclusions : The age at diagnosis of invasive cervical cancer in Jiangxi is obviously tends to be young. W e must emphasize the tendency of cervical cancer in young women and reinforce the cencus and therapy of young women. To prevent and diagnose cervical cancer is important to reduce the morbidity and mortality of cervical cancer.