In this research, keeping flowers while removing leaves was carried out at "Seven Wolf" Guangshun base unit for China Tobacco Fujian Industrial Company to improve the availability of the upper leaves of flue-cured tobacco. The results showed that the color, oil content and softness of the upper leaves were improved significantly by keeping flowers while removing leaves; the content of total sugar and reducing sugar were increased by 12.51% and 14.82%, respectively; the content of nicotine was reduced by 26.75%, while the difference of other conventional chemical composition between different processing were smaller; total content of the acid aroma components was increased by 51.45%, and 9 acid aroma components were increased of the 13 acid aroma components; total content of the neutral aroma components was increased by 2.40%, and 12 neutral aroma components were increased of the 22 neutral aroma components; smoking quality was improved significantly. And the upper leaves by keeping flowers while removing leaves had the quality characteristics of central leaves.