Meeting the cultural needs of the public is the key to the supply of public cultural services.The content preference of the community residents' cultural participation directly reflects the cultural needs of the urban residents.Based on the survey data，this paper analyzes the content preference of community residents’ participation in public culture，and finds that the content preference of community residents’ participation in public culture is different because of the gender，age，occupation，income and educational level.The single cultural supply content cannot match the various public cultural needs.It is necessary to optimize the content and supply mode of public culture from various aspects such as content evaluation，construction expression platform and supply path innovation.