Abstract: With the macroscopic background of the democratic politics andlegal construction, scholars' research on town governance can be summarized as: to analyze the history of town governance, to focus on rural governanceproblems and discuss the path of current town governance reform. These studies have promoted the transformation of town governance, and provide a theoreticalconstruction to further political practices, but the studies are also insufficient. In the future research, firstly, we should strengthen the basic researchof governance theory; secondly, we should strengthen the research of citizen participation. On the basic theory of the governance, we perfect the governancepractices, promote rural government from regulation to service and ultimately realize the good governance.