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The purpose of this study shows that the policy directions to invigorate smart education for special education through analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methodology in China. The AHP is a structured technique for organizing and analyzing complex decisions, based on mathematics and psychology. 79 Experts composed of four groups such as professors of education, professors of special education, special education teachers and teachers with ICT expertise have been selected for the first round AHP model development. The basic pool of 32 policy directions to stimuli smart education in special education area in China has been suggested. Delphi method to reduce ambiguity and redundancy of directions has been adapted. The AHP model has been finalized through a few steps of FGI. The policy consisted of five areas such as supporting infrastructure, supporting teaching and learning, development of education contents with smart media, securing of education network with smart media and establishing legal basis. AHP survey has been performed to analyze the importance of policies. The consistency ratio (CR) of 30 survey result were lower than 0.2 and average CR was 0.16. The AHP survey results shows that establishment of a legal foundation, development of smart devices considering accessibility of disabled students, development of various smart contents considering inability characteristics of disabled students and securing smart media supporting institute network are relatively important policies ordered by weights. Experts believed that the most important thing in China's special education sector is to establish a legal basis for fostering smart education. In Case of Korea, the literature review shows that the development of various smart media contents in special education is the most important policy to enhance smart education. Experts point out that this weight difference stems from differences in policy formulation process. In Korea, the development of diverse smart contents for special education should be activated and applied in terms of demand, whereas in China, the formulation of smart media policy of government should first be implemented to stimuli smart education. Based on the results of this study, it is possible to suggest policies aimed at promoting smart education of China’s special education. Future research issues willdeal with managing detailed steps of policy application for stimulating smart education, and research on building systematic plan for developing smart contents based on usefulness and demand.