Abstract:The prosperity of humanities and social science contributes to solve with the major theoretical and practical issues related to economic and social development. It shoulders the historical mission of thoughts leading, cultural inheritance, theory innovation and public diplomacy. Humanities and social science creative research groups, an important part of humanities and social science research organization, were funded few plans and little support from the government. This paper selected humanities and social science creative research groups from the National Natural Science Foundation and the Ministry of Education as samples, investigating the basic information of the group leaders and their work units, in order to reveal the characteristics of humanities and social science creative research groups, and its operating rules and problem.