Abstract: “The Opinions on the Strengthening of the Social Work Professional Development of Qualified Personnel” reflects China’s social demands for constructing a team of social workers. However, in reality, the construction develops at a very slow speed because the present way of development fails to take into consideration the constraint in disciplines among Chinese universities, the locality of professional training, the resource restriction to the development of social work organizations, the low demand from local administrations, low payment, low autonomy, etc. And the “embedding development style” may be a suitable path to the construction of social work professionals.

Key words: social work professional, structural constraint, embedment, social work