The wrongdoings in public life made us reflect theoretical research and practice of social moral culture in China. By analyzing the reality of social moral cultural construction，the article points out that the future of social moral cultural construction in China lies in the public civilization. Therefore，what we can do and must do is to reconstruct the social moral culture to satisfy the needs of contemporary era after deepening the research on moral and social moral culture，at the same time to explore the new approaches to realize and socialize the theoretical achievements，awaken the public’s social moral consciousness and cultivate the modern Chinese.