Children, as a special group, have received public attention. Although a series of policies have been released in recent years to ensure the safety of children's medication, there are still problems such as fewer suitable varieties of drugs and irrational use of medication, which require scientific and reasonable policies on children's medication to promote their development.

To quantitatively evaluate China's pediatric drug policy texts and provide reference for the formulation and improvement of future pediatric drug policies.

Based on the text mining method, 23 pediatric drug policy documents issued at the national level from 2014 to 2023 were processed, the policy modeling consistency (PMC) index model of pediatric drug policy was constructed, and the quantitative evaluation and analysis of China's 23 pediatric drug policies were carried out through 10 primary variables and 41 secondary variables.

The mean value of PMC index of the 23 policies on pediatric drug was 5.65, and the mean value of PMC depression index was 4.35, including 1 excellent-grade policy, 17 good-grade policies and 5 qualified-grade policies, and there were no perfect-grade policies and bad policies. 23 medication policies for children scored high on policy tools and policy receptors and low on publishing organizations and policy timeliness.

China's pediatric drug policy is generally at a good level, and can be further improved in terms of policy timeliness, issuing organization and policy content.