diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b9c8e84e1..78d91904e 100755
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 ### 🐣新特性
 * 【db    】      优化HttpRequest.toString()内容打印（issue#3072@Github）
+* 【poi   】      优化Sax方式读取时空白行返回0，修改为返回-1（issue#I6WYF6@Gitee）
 
 ### 🐞Bug修复
 * 【core  】      修复URLUtil.decode无法解码UTF-16问题（issue#3063@Github）
diff --git a/hutool-poi/src/main/java/cn/hutool/poi/excel/sax/SheetDataSaxHandler.java b/hutool-poi/src/main/java/cn/hutool/poi/excel/sax/SheetDataSaxHandler.java
index 5d61bde85..a2734d819 100644
--- a/hutool-poi/src/main/java/cn/hutool/poi/excel/sax/SheetDataSaxHandler.java
+++ b/hutool-poi/src/main/java/cn/hutool/poi/excel/sax/SheetDataSaxHandler.java
@@ -172,9 +172,8 @@ public class SheetDataSaxHandler extends DefaultHandler {
 	 */
 	private void startRow(Attributes attributes) {
 		final String rValue = AttributeName.r.getValue(attributes);
-		if (null != rValue) {
-			this.rowNumber = Long.parseLong(rValue) - 1;
-		}
+		// https://gitee.com/dromara/hutool/issues/I6WYF6
+		this.rowNumber = (null == rValue) ? -1 : Long.parseLong(rValue) - 1;
 	}
 
 	/**