Linear local tangent space alignment（ LLTSA） is an unsupervised dimension reduction method,which will lends to remaining overlaps between faults when it is used to high-dimension fault feature for dimension reduction due to its incapacity of using part sample class label information. Aiming at this problem,semi-supervised linear local tangent space alignment（ SSLLTSA） dimension reduction method is proposed in this paper. In SS-LLTSA,the distance between different points is adjusted by utilizing part class label information,thereby a new distance matrix is formed and the neighborhood is construct through this new distance matrix. The improved method realized the combination of data intrinsic manifold structure and class label information,and more discriminative low-dimension features can been obtained. And then,the corresponding relationship between low-dimension feature and fault classes are established by using support vector machine（ SVM）. Dimension reduction with SS-LLTSA can effectively increase the discrimination of fault feature,and furthermore,SVM can further improve fault diagnosis accuracy with its excellent pattern recognition capacity. Finally,the effectiveness of the proposed method was verified through the fault diagnosis experiment of rolling bearing.