The 21st century is the era of information science and the carrier of information is data. With the rapid development of computer science and other disciplines, a large amount of data has been reserved for the field of acupuncture. However, there are still undiscovered features and laws behind these data, and the lack of systematic and in-depth mining research, which seriously restricts the discipline development of acupuncture. As a new frontier interdisciplinary subject formed by the combination of traditional acupuncture and modern science, computational acupuncture has emerged as the times require. It takes the phenomena and laws in acupuncture as the research objectand aims to solve the key scientific problems of acupuncture medicine and improve the clinical efficacy of acupuncture. Computational acupuncturepaves a multi-disciplinary and cross fusion highway for the research of acupuncture.