The Center for Data and Research on Contemporary Social Life (CDRCSL), founded in 2011, attempts to collect and sort the social life materials since the establishment of People’s Republic of China in 1949, in order to preserve and study the historical memory of contemporary China. After ten years’ efforts, the CDRCSL has collected more than 300 batches of materials about social life from different provinces. And this vast and varied collection now ranks top among similar institutions. Under the support of École des hautes études en sciences socials France, the Center has successfully edited an electronic publication: China’s fieldwork-Zhang Letian’s Database of Lianmin Village (http://www.zltfieldwork.com). The Center cooperated with the Fudan University Library to build the Contemporary Chinese Social Life Database (https://chinalife.fudan.edu.cn/), which is also a part of the database of the Humanities and Social Sciences Data Institute of Fudan University. The Center and Fudan University Library jointly launched the Contemporary China Social Life Materials Co-construction and Sharing Alliance, attracting more than 20 leading university libraries and research institutions both at home and abroad to join this alliance, constructing and sharing the academic resources.