Abstract: Objective The aim of the report is to understand basic drug use of sanitary institutions and residents, to identify unreasonable drug use, to put forward suggestions, and to ensure the secure, economic and effective drug use of the institutions and residents. Methods The Methods of doing the research include multistage sampling of descriptions of five urban community health service center and five rural hospitals in Liaoning Province, using ques-tionnaires to collect drug use habits of both patients in hospitals and residents, and analyzing the data using spss13.0. In the process of the survey, direct observation and interview Methods were also used to collect information. Results The main findings is as followed, there exists irrational drug use in basic sanitary institutions, the new rural medical cooperation with each other aggravates irrational drug use, and the residents' cognitive level of drug use is still low. Conclusion Policies should be enacted and implemented after the mutual cooperation between different departments. The rational drug use level should be improved in basic sanitary institutions. The public's awareness of safe drug use should be improved through advocacy and training.

Key words: the community health service center, rural hospitals, rational drug use