Abstract: Social work policy is the guidance of the development of the industry. Many areas need the provisions of policy, like safeguarding the interests of social workers and clients and the standardization of the transmission of social work services. Taking 38 policies issued by the State Council and various ministries and commissions in the last decade as samples, 244 texts are encoded through content analysis to construct a two-dimensional analysis framework with basic policy tools as the X dimension and the development of social work as the Y dimension. By summarizing the distribution characteristics of these policies, it is found that though personnel development is and will be the focus, but there are many problems with the supporting policy, such as a small number of special policy and insufficient cooperation among ministries. Meanwhile, special laws and regulations are lacking, and the development of social work organizations does not gain adequate support.

Key words: social work policy, content analysis, personnel development