“创新”是驱动当前政府深层次改革的重要动力机制。地方政府创新已经远远超出了改革开放初期作为改革“试点”的功能,日益成为地方政府常规性的行动策略。一统体制下国家规制的单一性与地方治理复杂性之间的冲突则为地方政府创新提供了空间。但地方政府创新实践中也存在创新目标异化及项目选择中的低风险取向等现象,对关键问题的有效回应不足,存在被常规性工作同化的风险。解决这一问题,需要我们将“民本政府”作为对地方政府创新工作的评判标准及理想愿景,以推动我国政府治理模式由“改革开放”时代向“改革创新”时代迈进。 “Innovation ” is an important driving force that drives the current deep government reform. Local government innovation has gone far beyond the initial stage of reform and opening up as a “pilot” function of reform, and has increasingly become the routine action strategy of local governments. The conflict between the unity of state regulation and the complexity of local governance under the unified system provides the space for local government innovation. However, there are also some phenomena such as alienation of innovation objectives and low-risk orientation in project selection in the practice of local government innovation. There is not enough effective response to key issues and risks of assimilation by routine work. To solve this problem, we need “the people-oriented government” as the evaluation criterion and the ideal vision for the innovation work of local governments, in order to promote the government governance mode of our country from “the era of reform and opening up” to “the period of reform and innovation” Forward.