The invention discloses a Chinese error correction method based on mutual information. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining a target short sentence to be corrected, performing word segmentation processing on the target short sentence, obtaining a word segmentation sequence, and determining a pinyin combination sequence corresponding to the word segmentation sequence , each pinyin combination in the pinyin combination sequence corresponds to each participle in the word segmentation sequence one by one, and based on the homophone words mapped by each pinyin combination in the pinyin combination sequence, the error correction word sequence set is obtained, and the error correction word sequence set is calculated. The mutual information of each error correction word sequence, according to the size of the mutual information, determines the error correction result of the target short sentence. By applying the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present invention, the error correction of the target short sentence can be performed according to the frequency of words and the frequency of word collocation, and the accuracy rate of Chinese error correction can be improved. The invention also discloses a mutual information-based Chinese error correction device, a mutual information-based Chinese error correction device and a computer-readable storage medium with corresponding technical effects.