Abstract: Building a harmonious society is ranked as the theme of the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China(CPC),in which a new task for social construction is also put forward,especially in the aspect of promoting and improving people's livelihood.The attention of this issue is closely related to the development of the theory of building a harmonious society.Building a harmonious society endows our social construction abundant connotations.Among these connotations,running education to the satisfaction of people is one of the key issues of people's livelihood.It also occupies an important place in our social construction.Meanwhile,prominence is give to build a harmonious society and promote the social construction with people's livelihood as the key issue.To achieve these goals,we should take the scientific outlook as our guide to promote our social construction just as promote our economy before.