Abstract: Objective In recent years, with the increasing investment in the construction of community health center and community rehabilitation center in China, not only the level of equipment, personnel and clinical practice has been upgraded, but also the level of scientific research has been greatly upgraded. In order to investigate the current situation and problems of primary medical institutions in China on scientific research of general medicine practice. We searched the literature published in primary medical institutions in China between 2017 and 2018. Methods Retrieving the scientific literature published by primary medical institutions in China from January 2017 to January 2018 from CNKI, Wanfang data and VIP network, we conducted qualitative and quantitative analysis of the distribution of periodicals, the distribution of regional distribution, and the situation of the funds of these papers. Results The study found that the number of articles published in the national community health service center from January 2017 to January 2018 was 5 499, and all the articles published in the core periodicals were 697, accounting for 12.7%, and the other 4 802 articles were published in non-core periodicals, which accounted for 87.3%. The top five provincial-level administrative regions for scientific research are Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong, Tianjin and Jiangsu. The number of current studies in each journal was the largest, with 3 338 descriptive studies (60.7%), 2 033 analytical studies (36.9%), and 717 experimental studies (13.0%) among them, 536 (9.7%) articles involved two or more research methods. A total of 1 134 articles in the study were supported by various funds. Conclusion In our community hospitals, the level of scientific research is uneven and the quality of literature needs to be improved. We should pay more attention to improving the level of clinical research in the field of general science, promote the enthusiasm of the research in the community hospitals, create a good scientific research atmosphere, and accelerate the development of the general medicine in our country.