diff --git a/paddle/setup.py.in b/paddle/setup.py.in
index 06d55d3abc6097fa7d4b2b2ac9e29681e0fddfd5..31c9329f6a65f22b01d9a42a5cea2ce69641c583 100644
--- a/paddle/setup.py.in
+++ b/paddle/setup.py.in
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ setup(name="py_paddle",
       package_data={'py_paddle':['*.py','_swig_paddle.so']},
       install_requires = [
         'nltk>=3.2.2',
-        'numpy>=1.8.0',      # The numpy is required.
+        'numpy>=1.12.0',      # The numpy is required.
         'protobuf==${PROTOBUF_VERSION}'    # The paddle protobuf version
       ],
       url='http://www.paddlepaddle.org/',
diff --git a/python/setup.py.in b/python/setup.py.in
index 65a26940d4d703ea4fbb5022523a90716982ec10..7808238aa6ba5ca5c13292638f1c513f87cc2af2 100644
--- a/python/setup.py.in
+++ b/python/setup.py.in
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ packages=['paddle',
           'paddle.v2.framework.proto']
 
 setup_requires=["requests",
-                "numpy",
+                "numpy>=1.12",
                 "protobuf==3.1",
                 "recordio",
                 "matplotlib",