Objective: To understand the clinical distribution characteristics of cataract surgery patients and provide reference for cataract prevention and treatment in primary hospitals. Methods: From January 2019 to December 2019, 892 cataract patients (1 008 eyes) were selected from the Department of Ophthalmology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Jinzhou Medical University. Medical records were collected, including patient’s name, gender, age, surgical eye, admission time and history of diabetes, preoperative vision, corneal endothelial cell density, eye axis, phacoscotasmus type and cataract etiology, surgery method, intraocular lens, intraoperative complications, intraocular pressure, visual acuity and eye recovery on the first day after operation. These data were statistically described and analyzed. Results: A total of 892 cataract patients (1 008 eyes) were included, including 357 males (401 eyes) and 535 females (607 eyes), with the average age of (71.17±10.28) years old. The 90.7% patients cause of disease was age-related cataract. Admission time of all patients was mainly in March–June and September– December. Cataract patients of different ages had their own ocular characteristics. There was a statistically significant difference between the type of cataract and age (P<0.05). Compared with the cortical patients and posterior subcapsular patients, nuclear cataract patients were older at admission. There was no significant difference in the type of cataract between the gender and the patients with diabetes or not (P>0.05). The most frequently selected surgical method for cataract patients was phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation, which has the advantages of less intraoperative complications and rapid postoperative recovery. Conclusion: We still have a long way to go in the prevention and treatment of cataract. Most of the operations were performed on age-related cataract patients, and most of them were older and had low vision when they were admitted to hospital, so the optimal timing of the operation was missed. Patients of different age groups and different types of cataract have different characteristics. Phacoemulsification is the first choice because of its own advantages.