Objective To research the incidence of influenza-like illness（ILI）among adult residents in Beijing during the 2013-2014flu seasons and understand the public awareness of influenza prevention.Methods The adult residents in Beijing were investigated with a cross-sectional survey.The questionnaire included the basic information of respondents

the incidence of ILI and the prevention of influenza.The telephone survey was carried out by randomly selecting telephone numbers within Beijing residents.The site survey was carried out by randomly selecting six community health service stations in Dongcheng District. Results A total of 1001cases were studied.There were 384cases of telephone survey and 617cases of site survey and the incidence of ILI was 6.0%and 8.6%respectively.A total of 62.2%residents had prevention awareness in the flu season.In addition to ordinary preventive measures such as washing hands

physical exercise and wearing masks

the public preferred Chinese medicine prevention（telephone survey:16.1%

site survey:35.2 %）

followed by vaccination（5.7%

16.0%）and western medicine prevention（6.8%

9.9%）. Conclusion During the 2013-2014flu seasons

both the telephone survey and site survey show that the incidence of ILI in Beijing is higher than the incidence reported by Chinese National Influenza Center.Most residents have a certain awareness of influenza prevention.The acceptance of Chinese medicine prevention is the highest.