Abstract:Promoting the governance system and modernization of governance ability are the general goals of deepening the reform comprehensively put forward by The Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee.As one of the important parts of national governance,government governance undertakes the specific implementation of state governance and the function of administrative realization,whose modernization level directly affects the degree of the modernization of national governance.Therefore,timely summary and arrangement of the research hotspots and the overall trend of domestic government governance to respond to the practice of modernizing governance system and governance ability in theoretical research seems quite important.Based on 591 research papers about government governance of core journals from CNKI database in the past 16 years,this paper uses the literature metrology and the knowledge network analysis tool CiteSpaceIII to draw the knowledge map of domestic government governance research between 2001 and 2016.Afterwards,the panorama can reappear the pace-time dynamic development course of government governance and show the time-zone distribution,institution,research scholars,research hotspots and detect trends of research papers which can provide foundational knowledge support to the theoretical and practical research of future government governance.