外部董事制度是加强董事会建设的一项重要举措,要充分发挥外部董事制度的作用就要形成一套有效的运作机制.在借鉴央企董事会试点经验的基础上,上海国有企业集团积极开展外部董事制度试点工作,逐步建立起与外部董事制度相配套的运作机制,且已取得一定成效.“,”Outside directors system is an important measure to strengthen the construction of board of directors.The formation of an effective operating mechanism is necessary to give full play to the role of outside directors system.On the basis of learning from the central enterprises which has carried out the pilot of board of directors Shanghai state-owned enterprise groups actively carry out the pilot of outside directors system and gradually establish the operating mechanism matched with outside directors system,and has achieved some success.