The invention provides a culture method for making Chinese mitten-handed crabs come into market ahead of time. The method comprises the steps of firstly, determining a pond for the culture of adult Chinese mitten-handed crabs; secondly, in the first ten days of September each year, putting a certain quantity of juvenile crabs in other adult crab culture ponds; thirdly, in January-February of the second year, transplanting water plants in the adult crab culture pond; fourthly, in February-March, putting juvenile crabs obtained from the other adult crab culture ponds into the adult crab culture pond; fifthly, in the last ten days of March, starting to deliver animal bait continuously to the adult crab culture pond; sixthly, in the first ten days of April, putting margaryamelanoides into the culture pond; seventhly, in the first ten days of August, starting to deliver plant bait into the culture pond additionally. Juvenile crabs cultured in the same year are cultured in adult crab culture ponds for nutrient enhancement in advance and animal bait is employed in the whole process of an adult crab culture stage, so that the survival rate and the expansion rate after each moulting can be increased, the gonads can grow quickly and crabs can come into market ahead of time.