The improvement of in-service teachers' competence and the current situation of continuing education are inseparable. In order to improve the competence of middle school English teachers, the ministry of education and the provincial education department hold national, provincial and other different levels of training each year. The middle school English teachers were investigate from the basic situation, the professional level, the situation of training and training needs of participants. After analyzing, the results showed that: all is not from the full-time English teacher; The first improvement of the professional knowledge are listening and speaking skills; it's difficult for themselves to improve the scientific research ability, using language ability and the teaching design ability; And in the existing training, theory is more while practice is less; the participatory training model is rare. Trainees hope that excellent middle school English teachers are the best trainers, the experts following. Most of the teachers wants to have a relatively long and stable period to improve their professional competence. Aiming at these problems above, the following suggestions are put forward: middle schools should use all sorts of different levels of training efficiently; Training unit should formulate local training programs in order to improve the training effectiveness; the school-based development model of teachers' competency should be perfected and the promotion strategies are made clear.