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Hospitals today are confronted with new challenges in environmental hygiene management. Based on recent literatures and norms at home and abroad, this review analyzed such challenges and defects found in the environmental hygiene management of hospitals in China. The problems include but are not limited to the following: incomplete environmental management system and norms, insufficient staffing and funding support, lack of HR management mechanism in terms of employment, training, appraisal and reward/penalty, as well as poor hygiene awareness of hospital environmental services staff. In view of these problems in the hospitals, the authors provide specific countermeasures as follows: establishing new environmental hygiene management models, improving management mechanisms, creating positive and normalized cultural atmosphere for environmental infection control, and applying informatization to upgrade environmental hygiene quality. These measures are expected to serve as references for improving surrounding hygiene of patients.