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Objective@#To explore the relationship between adolescent knowledge-attitude-practice(KAP) and resilience in Chinese left-behind children, and provide the basis to develop the adolescent health education.@*Methods@#A total of 1 244 left-behind children from grade 4-9 was investigated through the self-designed Adolescent KAP Questionnaire and Adolescent Resilience Scale.@*Results@#Male and middle school students had better resilence than female and primary school students in left-behind children(t=4.70，4.27，P<0.01); the left-behind children with harmonious relationship between parents, richer family economic status and democratic parenting style obtained greater resilence(F=35.86，31.66，3.25，57.23，P<0.05), and adolescent KAP had positive prediction on target concentration(B=0.11), emotional control(B=0.07), positive cognition(B=0.09), family support(B=0.05), interpersonal assistance(B=0.09) and total resilience(B=0.41) of left-behind children(P<0.01).@*Conclusion@#For left-behind children, adolescent KAP may be have a positive association with resilence and more attention should be paid on adolescent health education.