diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/layers/nn.py b/python/paddle/fluid/layers/nn.py
index 93948000d4a3de4edb1205ec56459abcbbc76ac0..459c19a9a75dd8d918c43423f6dc9298fb703967 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/layers/nn.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/layers/nn.py
@@ -10800,7 +10800,7 @@ Examples:
 
         x = fluid.data(name="x", shape=[3], dtype='float32')
         y = fluid.data(name="y", shape=[3], dtype='float32')
-        z = fluid.layers.elementwise_max(x, y)
+        z = fluid.layers.elementwise_min(x, y)
 
         place = fluid.CPUPlace()
         exe = fluid.Executor(place)
@@ -10822,7 +10822,7 @@ Examples:
 
         x = fluid.data(name="x", shape=[2,3,4,5], dtype='float32')
         y = fluid.data(name="y", shape=[3,4], dtype='float32')
-        z = fluid.layers.elementwise_max(x, y, axis=1)
+        z = fluid.layers.elementwise_min(x, y, axis=1)
 
         place = fluid.CPUPlace()
         exe = fluid.Executor(place)