Neurological prognostication has become a very important part of post-cardiac arrest (CA) care. Early and accurate prediction of neurological should allows optimizing identification of those individuals with no chance of a good recovery and avoid making inappropriate decisions on withdrawal of life support in patients with the potential for recovery which is a frequent cause of death. However, there are still many challenges to address CA as an important public health issue in China, such as insufficient awareness as well as poor and non-standard practice of neurological assessment. To promote standardized neurological assessment after CA, we interpreted the part of neurological assessment in 2020 expert consensus statement on neuroprotection after cardiac arrest in China, which mainly involved the methods and protocols of neurological assessment after cardiopulmonary resuscitation.