The Institute of Social Development Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has continuously organized large-scale social surveys on “social attitudes and the state of social development”, and successfully published the Annual Report on Social Development in China (2012) and the Annual Report on Social Development in China, which have attracted widespread attention in society since their publication in 2012. in 2016. On the basis of summarizing the previous three years' surveys on the status of social development, we continued to implement the survey plan, based on scientific sampling and statistical analysis methods, to systematically assess the overall socio-economic development status of the country, and to form the “Annual Report on China's Social Development (2016)”, which includes: social prosperity, social inclusion, public participation, assessment of the inclusiveness of urban public services, assessment of the performance of social management, the quality of urban residents' lives quality, urban residents' working environment, people's environmental satisfaction, government trust, and urban residents' community participation.