Social support provides people with material and spiritual resources to face the difficulties in life and work. The effective support from family，friends，government，and community groups is beneficial to people’s physical and mental health and the long-term stability of the society. This study mainly explored Chinese residents’ perceived social support and the connection between perceived social support and other variables such as the way of inter-personal communication，media use，social economic status，and perception of the society，etc. The results showed that relatives were the major source of social support. There were differences in the perceived social support across different groups of respondents，for example，respondents under the age of 20 had the highest evaluation on their perceived social support；respondents with bachelor’s degree had the highest perceived social support；respondents living in first-tier cities had the lowest perceived social support；married respondents’ perception for social support was significantly higher than unmarried ones. Respondents had six close friends on average. Respondents living with close friends had the highest perceived social support compared to respondents living with other people. The level of perceive social support was higher for people who would like to pour out with friends moderately. There was a positive correlation between newspaper use and perceived social support. The higher the social economic status，the higher the perception of social support. The better feeling about the society，the higher the social support perception.