Abstract: By selecting China's top 10 cities in population as the research sample， a mixed empirical research method is used to explore the burden of grassroots civil servants. It is found that the endogenous and exogenous problems of grassroots burden coexist， which are caused by multiple complex intertwined variable factors that are not parallel. Practice has proved that the high pressure， high workload and heavy workload of grassroots civil servants have become a key problem that restricts grassroots civil servants' entrepreneurship and performance improvement. It is difficult to fundamentally solve the problem simply by adjustments in “hosting meetings， issuing documents， supervising examinations and making constraints”. Therefore， in order to alleviate the burdens at the grassroots level， comprehensive policies should be implemented in a centralized， fundamental and internalized way in terms of mechanisms and systems， which are specifically reflected in the combination of deepening the reform of “decentralization， management and service” and reducing the workload at the grassroots level， in the combination of making a detailed list of rights and responsibilities at the grassroots level and limiting the authority of the superior， in the combination of restricting the power of supervision and examination and slowing down rigid constraints， and in the combination of innovating the management concepts and revitalizing human resources.

Key words: grassroots civil servant; grassroots burden; grassroots “burden alleviation”; mixed study