Objective To analyzed the pulmonary imaging manifestations of 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pneumonia, in order to improve the imaging diagnosis of the disease. Methods Retrospective analysis of the imaging and clinical data of 22 patients infected with the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) were reviewed, which all the patients took the X-ray or CT scan, and to record the images in the two types of inspection for each patient, including the involvement of the consolidation of the lung, ground-glass opacification, consolidation, paving stone chippings, fiber cable and interlobular septal thickening and so on. Results A total of 22 patients were diagnosed with COVID-19, and the ratio of male to female was 1:1, age range is 20~82, mean age is (52.9±16.2.21) patients received chest X-ray examination, including 3 patients received the non-contrast CT examination at the same time; 1 patient received chest CT plain examination only. 16 (76%) among the 21 patients with X-ray showed patchy and flocculent dense shadows, while the remaining 5 patients (24%) showed no abnormal signs in both lungs. 4 patients with CT scan can find the lesions. Among the 4 patients with detect CT scan, 3 patients (75%) involved 5 pulmonary lobes, and 1 patient (25%) only involved 1 pulmonary lobe. All of them showed subpleural ground-glass opacification, consolidation, paving stone chippings, fiber cable and interlobular septal thickening, including lymph node enlargement occurred in 1 case (25%), fiber strip shadows were observed in 2 cases (50%). Conclusion The imaging examination is of great value for the diagnosis and disease evaluation of COVID-19, among which X-ray examination is not good for some lesions, and CT plain scan is relatively accurate for the examination of lesions, which can be used as the preferred imaging method of COVID-19, providing further theoretical basis for early clinical diagnosis and treatment.