Abstract：In 2014，the social conflicts in Beijing moved towards easing off. As the government actively promotes the public service reform，including housing security，education and healthcare，the public policy-based mechanisms have played a positive role in releasing conflicts. This study finds that in 2014 Beijing economic and social reform turned out to be effective and the subjective conflicts in terms of ruling the country by law decreased. However，some conflicts of interests existed in economic and social development are worthy of more attention and the livelihood-based material conflicts is the main aspect of social conflict. When people have conflicts，more than 70% of people choose to resolve the conflicts in a peaceful way and the percentage of people who make complaints on the Internet increases. When people have material conflicts，they tend to choose self-help behavior and their behavior choices are more easily affected by class identity. Since the level of social conflict is associated with residents’ subjective cognition of conflict，the government should pay attention to the hidden discontent in society and specifically release and resolve social conflicts through conducting quantitative research on social conflicts and digging up the real causes of social conflicts.