Abstract: Training of civil servants at the basic level has always been the key to the quality improvement of the personnel of public administration. Training effectiveness has aroused the attention of both theorists and practical workers. Inview of the previous research on the trainee readiness, the paper puts forward the concept of readiness of training of Chinese civil servants at the basic level. The paper establishes seven dimensions and scales and a questionnaire survey is conducted to test the hypothesis of each dimension.Through the discussion on the relationship between the various dimensions and the training effectiveness, the paper builds a relationship model of the readiness of the training with the expectation to promote the training effectiveness of Chinese civil servants at the basic level.