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Modern urban civilization features security development as an important symbol. The accelerating urbanization in China leads to the growing incompatibility and imbalance between the demand in urban security development and the expansion in urban population，functions and scales. Complex urban risks are becoming more and more threatening. Urban residents’ demand for public security has turned into a significant issue in the current urban construction and development. The sense of public security in cities reflects residents’ overall perception of urban security. It is also an important indicator for measuring the level of urban public safety and evaluating the effectiveness of the government’s urban public security governance.

In order to reflect the current situation and problems of urban residents’ sense of public security objectively and truly，based on the relevant academic studies，the research group has established a set of as many as nine conventional and unconventional standards in sense of public security，covering nature，public order，food，traffic，public health，ecology，public facilities，social assistance and information. From July to August 2019，more than 200 teachers and students were divided into 19 teams to conduct a large-scale national urban survey activity，collecting first-hand data and information urban residents’ sense of public security in 36 cities across the country. The report developed from the mass investigation has provided important and valuable evidence for strategic policy-making and academic research in China urban security development.

The investigation report consists of a general report and a series of specialized reports. The general report outlines the index system，data collection，measurement and ranking of the sense of security index of the national urban public security survey，summarizing an analyzing the problems and challenges of my country’s urban public security，then offering relevant countermeasures and suggestions to improve urban residents’ sense of security in China. The series of specialized reports observe the current situation of urban residents’ sense of security from 9 conventional and non-conventional involved in urban public security，analyzing existing problems，and then providing countermeasures and suggestions.

The report shows out that the national urban sense of public security index generally has a general upward trend. The cities with separate planning are relatively leading，and the security index of super-large cities has a large difference. In the specialized reports on sense of security，the sense of public security in information has been at the bottom for three consecutive years，social assistance still being left behind，public health security still poor，reflecting the current urban residents’ concern of information security，ageing of population and environmental health and other issues in daily life. The report further proposes to strengthen the guarantee of urban public security operations，build an efficient and powerful urban public security governance system，create an urban public safety governance model with the government as the core and the participation of multiple subjects，establish an inter-governmental cooperation mechanism to improve urban public security governance performance and make full use of governance tools to improve the technological empowerment in urban public security management and other countermeasures.