Abstract: When changing from planed economy to market economy inChina,the connection between individual and the society also changed from personal bondage to material bondage,which entirely changed personal existence,forming new content in basic value relationship,important value and life consciousness in the individual life value system.However,the deep-rooted massive life culture,systematic deficiency in the transitional period,and the superincumbent lack of rational enlightenment brought a great dilemma to the individual life value system in the historical transition.To go out of this dilemma,we should perfect the social security system,democratic and legal society,and social humanization on the one hand,and on the other hand we should rely on the rational consciousness,subjective sense,civic awareness,and legal personality.

Key words: contemporary Chinese society, characteristics ofindividual existence, material dependence, system of individual life value, dilemma