Zhang Kangkang's Turtle was a modern novel that mainly talked about the problems that a man named Zhang Kangkang and his family encountered in the process of urban development. Through the story of Zhang Kangkang's family's experiences in the process of urban development, the novel explored the problems in the process of urban development, including the impact of urban development on humanity, family and society, as well as the challenges and difficulties people faced in the process of pursuing material wealth and social status in the process of urban development. The social theme of Turtle's novels was the problem of the process of modernisation. In the novel, Zhang Kangkang's family's experience reflected the problems in the process of urban development, including the waste of resources, social class division, interpersonal alienation and so on. These problems were common in modern society and brought great pressure and challenges to people's lives. The turtle novel discussed the problems in the process of modernisation by telling the story of the protagonist Zhang Kangkang and his family, and called on people to reflect on the problems in the process of modernisation and propose solutions.