Abstract: Objective To study the status of healthy life style among adult residents in Shijiazhuang city in 2012.Methods Totally 14417 permanent residents of aged 15-69 years were selected with stratified random cluster sampling in the urban and rural of Shijiazhuang city and interviewed about their basic situation,health knowledge and health behaviors in October to December 2012.Results The awareness rate of the contents of healthy life style was more than 89.94%but the awareness rate of normal body mass index(BMI)and waist circumference were only 23.73% and 23.75%among the participants.Of the participants,64.74%,70.25%,and 56.88%reported the willingness to limit salt intake,oil consumption,and BMI voluntarily;compared to the urban participants,the rural participants had lower ratios of self-control for salt intake and BMI(both P=0.000),but a higher ratio of self-limitation for oil consumption(P=0.034).The male participants reported a lower ratio of self-control of body weight than the female participants (P=0.000).There were 90.56%of the participants eating vegetables frequently but only 29.85%maintaining oral hygiene correctly.The male participants and rural participants reported significantly higher current smoking and passive smoking rate compared to the female participants and urban participants(all P=0.000).Conclusion The health knowledge and health behaviors in adult residents of Shijiazhuang city were at a general level.