This article elaborates on the concept, development, and characteristics of visual intelligence, and reviews its application in diabetes health management, including diabetic retinopathy screening, non-invasive blood glucose monitoring, real-time food nutrition assessment, exercise posture adjustment, and foot wound management.It proposes that future efforts should focus on dee-pening the integration of multimodal data, accelerating clinical application and translation, and strengthening privacy protection, to promote the application of visual intelligence technology in diabetes management.