Animal husbandry is important for promoting the prosperity of rural industry, increasing farmers' income and improving people's life. Through the combination of quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis, this paper reviewed the development of animal husbandry in China since the reform and opening up, comprehensively analyzed the key constraints of animal husbandry according to the high-quality development objectives, and systematically put forward the basic strategies of animal husbandry high-quality development. Results showed that the production scale of Chinese animal husbandry was significantly expanded, and product structure was optimized, production way was upgraded, development concept changed obviously, which greatly enriched and satisfied the people's increasing need of a better life; in the economic, yield, protein etc. dimensions, relatively stable production layout had formed, fromed the traditional incremental oriented development era into high quality development in the new period; however, in order to achieve the goal of high-quality development, there were still some key constraints, such as improved breeds of livestock and poultry, animal diseases, breeding technology, shortage of resources and environmental protection. Finally, the high-quality development strategies were proposed from the following eight aspects including seed industry security, supply stability, technical support, structure optimization, green development, appropriate scale, internal and external circulation, and policy stability.