RESUMO
After systematically reviewing the syndrome distribution， evolution， diagnostic criteria， effectiveness evaluation and genomics study on acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease （AECOPD） in the past decade， we found that there are problems such as inconsistency in the nomenclature of syndrome， lack of quantitative diagnostic tools for syndrome， less developed evaluation tools for syndrome efficacy， and singularity of genomics technique. Based on this， it was proposed that we should pay attention to the standardisation of syndrome naming， strengthen the research on quantitative diagnostic methods， establish standardised and quantitative diagnostic tools， further improve the existing assessment tools of syndrome effectiveness， and integrate the existing genomics techniques to conduct research， so as to support the further research on AECOPD syndromes.