Abstract: To raise the overall level of waste acid disposal and utilization, a specific survey was made on this industry in Jiangsu Province by the provincial environmental protection bureau. A total of 49 waste acid disposal enterprises registered in 9 cities were investigated in 2016. And each enterprise was graded based on an evaluation of the management standardization, technological rationality, production safety and the treatment effectivity of environmental protective facility. According to the data of this survey, the waste acid production scale, enterprise concentration areas and hazardous characteristics of surface treatment industry were summarized, and the characteristics and existing problems of recycling processes and comprehensive utilization methods of surface treatment waste acid within the province were analyzed. Some advices on the normalization of the industry and the management of relevant departments were finally proposed.