Objective To understand the nutritional status and dietary energy intake level for the 6 to 12-month-old infants in Lixia district in Jinan city and offer related guidance for the parents to do reasonable feeding. Methods 10 320 healthy infants with age ranging from 6 to 12 months old were investigated.The health situation was measured by the means of height for weight recommended by WHO and the questionnaire has been done among the parents in order to obtain information about the infants' dietary pattern. Results There was no statistical significance (P＞0.05) for the difference of nutritional status of infants with different genders.The difference feeding between breast feeding and mixed feeding had statistical significance (P＜0.05) instead.The rate of breast feeding was higher for female infants than male infants while the mix feeding rate for male infants was higher than female infants.No dramatically difference among female and male infants existed for the artificial feeding.No significant difference of nutritional status was caused from different feeding methods.However,the artificial feeding to infants with different genders resulted in the prominent difference in nutritional status.There was no striking difference about the RNI of three material (carbohydrate,axunge and protein),microelement and vitamin for the infants with different nutritional status (P＞0.05). Conclusion The nutritional status is acceptable in general and the growth and development situation met the standard level whereas there were exceptional unreasonable individual feeding cases.It is crucial to note that dietary structure needs to be adjusted in order to maintain the balance among various nutrient.