On the basis of ABPM, continuous intervention on hypertensive patients guided by chronotherapeutics could effec tively improve therapeutic compliance and blood-pressure control. Differences between urban and rural areas, education level,family member living together, monthly income of family, payment of medical care and whether intervention were the influencing factors of hypertensive patients’ com pliance to chronotherapeutics, therefore health care providers should take different measures to improve compliance according to patients’ different characteristics