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During the late 19th Century, the German imperialism established their new colonial base in Kiaochow area in China. This paper is focusing on the ways of implementing racial hygienic policy in the Kiaochow (Kiauschou) and showing the relationship between German imperialism and racial policy. In particular, this paper discusses several historical connections between the colonial policy and their own biopolitical policies: firstly, the imperial racial hygienic program was based on the Social Darwinism which was flourished in the western imperialism, and it played a direct causal factor in justifying the Holocaust in the Nazi era. Secondly, the research achievements and discourse on racial hygiene became an important backbone of the colonial racial policy, which reflects the contemporary racial views and cultural imperialist tendencies in the German society. On the basis of the racial hygienic view, the imperial government and colonial government set up their policies on the inter-racial marriage and mixed blood in the Kiaochow colonial area. Furthermore, the colonial policies, which were relied upon the German racial hygienic view, were incorporated with the imperial view on living space (Lebensraum), racism and the politicized science.