The article presents information on sociology and social problem research in China. For more than one and a half centuries, sociology has been a discipline which constantly deals with the social problems as sociological issues. This is also true in China where sociology is much younger. But from the early beginnings of the establishment of sociology in China in the 1920s, sociology was considered as a branch of natural science of/for society specifically created to deal with the social problems that ordinary everyday people have to face. However, this is the time when one has encountered the challenges from globalization, one needs to acknowledge that, ironically, along with the development of sociology as an academic discipline, social problems actually increase in almost all parts of the world and also they extend to regional, Transnational or global levels. Sociologists in China, like those colleagues all over the world, today seem intellectually less influential and practically less useful than before.