The LAMOST DR5 general catalog includes objects obtained from LAMOST pilot survey and the first five year regular survey. For galaxy, QSO and M type stars, all of them are in included in the catalog. But for other type targets, only those targets with r band S/Ns larger than 2, or g band S/Ns larger than 5, or i band S/Ns larger than 5 are list. In this catalog, there are 9,017,844 spectra totally, including 8,171,443 star spectra, 153,090 galaxy spectra, 51,133 quasar spectra, and 642,178 unknown object spectra.