Based on the two-day profile of Chinese rendezvous and docking mission, a 5-revolution short-rendezvous phasing strategy was proposed by cutting down the flight duration for orbit determination, computation of maneuver parameters and command uploading, and non-visible course of flight. This phasing strategy was solved by using the algorithm of four-impulse modified special-point maneuver. The required precision of orbit determination to meet the control precision at the end of phasing was obtained. Then, the optimal phase range and total velocity increment were analyzed. Further results show that the optimal phase range is affected by the target spacecraft’s orbit injection accuracy, the chaser’s orbit insert precision and apogee height, the target orbital altitude and the final desired target point of rendezvous phasing. Finally, in order to obtain the starting phase angle, both the target spacecraft’s phasing strategy and the chaser’s launch chances are analyzed for the short rendezvous mission.