Abstract: Research on the relationship between government and nongovernment organizations not only helps the government in decision making about social development，but also affect the direction of such relationship.However，researches on cooperation between government and nongovernment organizations at present is not deep enough in the following 4 aspects：research on the dynamic cooperation between government and nongovernment organizations，research on cooperative relation between government and nongovernment organizations from the ruling party perspective，micro research on the fields and approaches of government and non government cooperation.The above mentioned aspects are the focus of future studies on cooperation between government and nongovernment organizations.

Key words: government, non government organizations, community groups, citizen organization, cooperation