Diabetes is an emerging worldwide problem whose prevalence is expected to grow up. Microvascular and macrovascular complications have a great impact on quality of life and survival of patients and represent an economic and social burden. Current guidelines, regarding the blood pressure (BP) target in diabetic patients, point out the importance of a good BP control in order to prevent cardiovascular and renal complications. The 2013 European Society of Hypertension/ European Society of Cardiology (ESH/ESC) Task Force stopped recommending the target of <130/80 mm Hg in patients with diabetes and recommended a goal of <140/85 mm Hg 1 in partial accordance with that (<140/90 mm Hg) suggested by Eighth Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High BP (JNC 8). 2 Nevertheless, the latest 2018 Canadian hypertension guideline and 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guideline have both recommended that adults with diabetes be treated to attain <130/80 mm Hg. 3,4 Recent studies show an alarming failure to achieve both glycemic and BP targets in a real-life scenario. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Hypertension, the cross-sectional study by Yu-Qing Zhang and colleagues provides information on achievement in BP control in a cohort of 24 512 Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes in a realworld setting. 5 The CCMR-3B STUDY is an observational, cross-sectional, multicenter, and multispecialty study of diabetic outpatients conducted in 104 hospitals across major geographic regions in China. Only a minor proportion of this population reached the target BP values of 130/80 mm Hg (28.4%) recommended by Chinese diabetes guidelines. Among patients with hypertension (n = 15 211), 17.5% (n = 2658) achieved the recommended target BP, and 52.2% (n = 7936) had their BP controlled to <140/90 mm Hg. Interestingly, rural area and comorbidities such as obesity, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease (CKD) were associated with a lower goal of optimal BP. These data are in agreement with a recent nationwide report of the burden of hypertension across all 31 provinces in mainland China 6 describing as among the 105 379 subjects with diabetes, a 66% showed hypertension (BP levels above 140/90 mm Hg or antihypertensive treatment) and most were either not treated or treated inadequately. Taken together, these findings show that in China, despite the high prevalence of hypertension, awareness, treatment, and control are low across all population subgroups. Notably, only 182 patients (1.20% among the hypertensive subjects) of the paper to which this commentary is devoted 5 were treated with three or more antihypertensive drugs, including a diuretic and therefore defined patients with resistant hypertension. This figure is very different from that described from the AMD study group who in a large, real-life cohort study in patients with type 2 diabetes and hypertension in Italy, from a total of 29 923 patients with normal baseline estimated glomerular filtration ...