diff --git a/api/README.md b/api/README.md
index 93ee1816c6..4069b3d88b 100644
--- a/api/README.md
+++ b/api/README.md
@@ -17,16 +17,16 @@
    ```bash
    sed -i "/^SECRET_KEY=/c\SECRET_KEY=$(openssl rand -base64 42)" .env
    ```
-3.5 If you use Anaconda, create a new environment and activate it
+4. If you use Anaconda, create a new environment and activate it
    ```bash
    conda create --name dify python=3.10
    conda activate dify
    ```
-4. Install dependencies
+5. Install dependencies
    ```bash
    pip install -r requirements.txt
    ```
-5. Run migrate
+6. Run migrate
 
    Before the first launch, migrate the database to the latest version.
 
@@ -47,9 +47,11 @@
    pip install -r requirements.txt --upgrade --force-reinstall
    ```
 
-6. Start backend:
+7. Start backend:
    ```bash
    flask run --host 0.0.0.0 --port=5001 --debug
    ```
-7. Setup your application by visiting http://localhost:5001/console/api/setup or other apis...
-8. If you need to debug local async processing, you can run `celery -A app.celery worker -P gevent -c 1 --loglevel INFO -Q dataset,generation,mail`, celery can do dataset importing and other async tasks.
+8. Setup your application by visiting http://localhost:5001/console/api/setup or other apis...
+9. If you need to debug local async processing, please start the worker service by running 
+`celery -A app.celery worker -P gevent -c 1 --loglevel INFO -Q dataset,generation,mail`.
+The started celery app handles the async tasks, e.g. dataset importing and documents indexing.