diff --git a/apis/swagger.yml b/apis/swagger.yml
index 8139f2d15..b0859d732 100644
--- a/apis/swagger.yml
+++ b/apis/swagger.yml
@@ -2520,6 +2520,12 @@ definitions:
             x-nullable: true
             additionalProperties:
               type: "string"
+          SpecAnnotation:
+            type: "object"
+            description: "update specAnnotation for container"
+            x-nullable: true
+            additionalProperties:
+              type: "string"
 
   ContainerUpgradeConfig:
     description: |
diff --git a/apis/types/update_config.go b/apis/types/update_config.go
index 41aa6b1ac..e68edcdc7 100644
--- a/apis/types/update_config.go
+++ b/apis/types/update_config.go
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ type UpdateConfig struct {
 
 	// restart policy
 	RestartPolicy *RestartPolicy `json:"RestartPolicy,omitempty"`
+
+	// update specAnnotation for container
+	SpecAnnotation map[string]string `json:"SpecAnnotation,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // UnmarshalJSON unmarshals this object from a JSON structure
@@ -48,6 +51,8 @@ func (m *UpdateConfig) UnmarshalJSON(raw []byte) error {
 		Label []string `json:"Label"`
 
 		RestartPolicy *RestartPolicy `json:"RestartPolicy,omitempty"`
+
+		SpecAnnotation map[string]string `json:"SpecAnnotation,omitempty"`
 	}
 	if err := swag.ReadJSON(raw, &dataAO1); err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -61,6 +66,8 @@ func (m *UpdateConfig) UnmarshalJSON(raw []byte) error {
 
 	m.RestartPolicy = dataAO1.RestartPolicy
 
+	m.SpecAnnotation = dataAO1.SpecAnnotation
+
 	return nil
 }
 
@@ -82,6 +89,8 @@ func (m UpdateConfig) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
 		Label []string `json:"Label"`
 
 		RestartPolicy *RestartPolicy `json:"RestartPolicy,omitempty"`
+
+		SpecAnnotation map[string]string `json:"SpecAnnotation,omitempty"`
 	}
 
 	dataAO1.DiskQuota = m.DiskQuota
@@ -92,6 +101,8 @@ func (m UpdateConfig) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
 
 	dataAO1.RestartPolicy = m.RestartPolicy
 
+	dataAO1.SpecAnnotation = m.SpecAnnotation
+
 	jsonDataAO1, errAO1 := swag.WriteJSON(dataAO1)
 	if errAO1 != nil {
 		return nil, errAO1
diff --git a/cli/update.go b/cli/update.go
index 2a56191dc..98808ce8e 100644
--- a/cli/update.go
+++ b/cli/update.go
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ func (uc *UpdateCommand) addFlags() {
 	flagSet.StringSliceVarP(&uc.labels, "label", "l", nil, "Set label for container")
 	flagSet.StringVar(&uc.restartPolicy, "restart", "", "Restart policy to apply when container exits")
 	flagSet.StringSliceVar(&uc.diskQuota, "disk-quota", nil, "Update disk quota for container(/=10g)")
+	flagSet.StringSliceVar(&uc.specAnnotation, "annotation", nil, "Update annotation for runtime spec")
 }
 
 // updateRun is the entry of update command.
@@ -97,12 +98,18 @@ func (uc *UpdateCommand) updateRun(args []string) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
+	annotation, err := opts.ParseAnnotation(uc.specAnnotation)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
 	updateConfig := &types.UpdateConfig{
-		Env:           uc.env,
-		Label:         uc.labels,
-		RestartPolicy: restartPolicy,
-		Resources:     resource,
-		DiskQuota:     diskQuota,
+		Env:            uc.env,
+		Label:          uc.labels,
+		RestartPolicy:  restartPolicy,
+		Resources:      resource,
+		DiskQuota:      diskQuota,
+		SpecAnnotation: annotation,
 	}
 
 	apiClient := uc.cli.Client()
diff --git a/daemon/mgr/container.go b/daemon/mgr/container.go
index 5f7bd81cc..ecdfe5a58 100644
--- a/daemon/mgr/container.go
+++ b/daemon/mgr/container.go
@@ -1163,6 +1163,12 @@ func (mgr *ContainerManager) Update(ctx context.Context, name string, config *ty
 		}
 	}
 
+	c.Lock()
+	if len(config.SpecAnnotation) > 0 {
+		c.Config.SpecAnnotation = mergeAnnotation(config.SpecAnnotation, c.Config.SpecAnnotation)
+	}
+	c.Unlock()
+
 	if mgr.containerPlugin != nil && len(config.Env) > 0 {
 		if err = mgr.containerPlugin.PostUpdate(c.BaseFS, c.Config.Env); err != nil {
 			return err
diff --git a/daemon/mgr/container_utils.go b/daemon/mgr/container_utils.go
index 595bcff12..9f12c1fe6 100644
--- a/daemon/mgr/container_utils.go
+++ b/daemon/mgr/container_utils.go
@@ -310,3 +310,19 @@ func mergeEnvSlice(newEnv, oldEnv []string) ([]string, error) {
 
 	return newEnvSlice, nil
 }
+
+func mergeAnnotation(newAnnotation, oldAnnotation map[string]string) map[string]string {
+	if len(newAnnotation) == 0 {
+		return oldAnnotation
+	}
+
+	if len(oldAnnotation) == 0 {
+		oldAnnotation = make(map[string]string)
+	}
+
+	for k, v := range newAnnotation {
+		oldAnnotation[k] = v
+	}
+
+	return oldAnnotation
+}
diff --git a/test/cli_update_test.go b/test/cli_update_test.go
index 4ec76f2ed..d5707deed 100644
--- a/test/cli_update_test.go
+++ b/test/cli_update_test.go
@@ -539,3 +539,40 @@ func (suite *PouchUpdateSuite) TestUpdateBlkIOLimit(c *check.C) {
 	out := res.Stdout()
 	c.Assert(out, check.Equals, Expected)
 }
+
+func checkContainerAnnotation(c *check.C, cName string, annotationKey string, expect string) {
+	output := command.PouchRun("inspect", cName).Stdout()
+	result := []types.ContainerJSON{}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(output), &result); err != nil {
+		c.Errorf("failed to decode inspect output: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	annotations := result[0].Config.SpecAnnotation
+	v, found := annotations[annotationKey]
+	c.Assert(found, check.Equals, true)
+	c.Assert(v, check.Equals, expect)
+}
+
+// TestUpdateAnnotation is to verity the correctness of update the annotation
+func (suite *PouchUpdateSuite) TestUpdateAnnotation(c *check.C) {
+	cname := "TestUpdateAnnotation1"
+	annotation1 := "key1=value1"
+	annotation2 := "key2=value2"
+	command.PouchRun("run", "-d", "--name", cname, "--annotation", annotation1, "--annotation", annotation2, busyboxImage, "top").Assert(c, icmd.Success)
+	defer DelContainerForceMultyTime(c, cname)
+
+	annotation1Update := "key1=value1.new"
+	annotation2Update := "key2=value2.new"
+
+	command.PouchRun("update", "--annotation", annotation1Update, cname).Assert(c, icmd.Success)
+	checkContainerAnnotation(c, cname, "key1", "value1.new")
+	checkContainerAnnotation(c, cname, "key2", "value2")
+
+	command.PouchRun("update", "--annotation", annotation2Update, cname).Assert(c, icmd.Success)
+	checkContainerAnnotation(c, cname, "key1", "value1.new")
+	checkContainerAnnotation(c, cname, "key2", "value2.new")
+
+	command.PouchRun("restart", cname).Assert(c, icmd.Success)
+	checkContainerAnnotation(c, cname, "key1", "value1.new")
+	checkContainerAnnotation(c, cname, "key2", "value2.new")
+}