Based on 43 social enterprises in guangdong province from 2015 to 2016 in the questionnaire and depth interview, this study tries to present the development of social enterprises in guangdong province.In recent years, with the domestic social enterprises gradually forming ecosystem, social enterprises in China's booming and increasingly diverse.Its development path can be roughly divided into three types: corporate social responsibility of business extension, traditional nonprofits self transformation, private investment based on social innovation spirit.Social enterprises are using business model to explore the effective ways to solve social and environmental issues, to the development of China's public welfare philanthropy has injected new vitality.But at the same time, the development of social enterprise is also facing a series of challenges.In general, the social enterprise of guangdong province at present has not yet become an independent organization type, but more floating in between threshold of businesses and non-profit organizations.