The STRICTA checklist is the guideline for reporting clinical trials undertaken using acupuncture intervention.As an extension of the CONSORT checklist,the STRICTA checklist facilitates the reporting quality of acupuncture clinical trials.The clinical research paradigm changes along with the development of science and technology.It is crucial to ensure whether or not the existing STRICTA checklist guides the reporting clinical trials of acupuncture now and in the future as well.This paper introduces the development and the updating procedure of the STRICTA checklist,analyzes the characteristics of utility and the limitation,and proposes several suggestions on the difficulties and challenges encountered in the implementation of the STRICTA checklist of current version so as to advance the further update and improvement.