Objective To study the incidence of newborn eye diseases and to explore the clinical strategies for the screening of newborn ocular diseases. Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on 950 newborns from January 2014 to March 2015. Results Among the 950 newborns who were enrolled the screening program,10 different eye diseases(involving 200 cases)were detected,with a prevalence of 21.05%. The eye diseases included familial exudative vitreoretinopathy in 5 cases(0.526%),persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous in 1 case(0.105%),congenital cataract in 1 case(0.105%),retinal hemorrhage in 55 cases(5.789%), physiologic large cup in 3 cases(0.316%),congenital lacrimal duct obstruction in 5 cases(0.526%),neonatal conjunctivitis in 100 cases(10.53%),dermolipoma in 2 cases(0.211%),congenital lacrimal sac mucocele in 2 cases(0.211%),retinopathy of prematurity in 26 cases(2.737%). Conclusion Neonatal eye diseases are not uncomon in clinical, and a part of the eye diseases can be early screening and early treatment to avoid blindness.