Abstract: The current status, challenges and development of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education for those unmarried adolescents were discussed, which based on the perspective of SRH needs in China. SRH needs of those unmarried adolescents can be described as follows: extensive content, diverse approaches, and privacy of education/consulting enviroment. Currently, the challenges include: family loss in its basic function of SRH knowledge transfer; SRH education vacancy in rural schools; and the sharp transition from “too shy to talk about sex” to “sexual liberation” in those unmarried adolescents. To actively respond to these challenges, it need to increase policy support, to make the families and parents play an active role in SRH education in pre-teen school and during the school, to ensure young people acquire life skills-based comprehensive SRH education in compulsory education, and to promote their SRH to combine with the compositive intervention related to employment, health, education and anti-violence in those unmarried adolescents.

Key words: Adolescent, Residential mobility, Single person, Reproductive health services, Sex education