Abstract:To evaluate the development of environment-friendly society, this paper is based on the connotation of environment-friendly society, and following the general principles of which are constructed on the comprehensive assessment indicator system, from the aspects of total environmental impact, environmental impact development and environmental protection potential, building a comprehensive assessment indicator system of environment-friendly society, and using statistical data of the year 2011, the comprehensive assessment indicator system and cluster analysis are applied to appraise the development situation of the environment-friendly society of 21 prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province. The results indicate that the 21 prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province can be divided into four groups. On the spatial distribution, regions with relatively higher degree of environment-friendly society mostly lie in the Pearl River Delta region, while regions with relatively lower degree of environment-friendly society mostly lie in the eastern, western and northern Guangdong. These conclusions have great referential value for the relevant government decision.