The government response ability is one of the key elements for good governance government，it is also a measure of a country or an important standard of social good governance level.In this paper，based on the theoretical perspective of good governance，from the process，content，effect and response time and way to interpret the response ability of the government ought to be representation，the response ability of the Chinese government in recent years for the cause of the lack of reality and in-depth，as advocated by the new public service concept，strengthening the government response to the system construction，widen the channel of the citizen participation，to speed up the construction of electronic government measures to promote the response ability.