The public governance theory, emerged in the 1990s, has provided a new theoretical perspective to the research on the relation between government and non-profit organization. The emergence of the public governance theory is an important reform for the public administration theory and the practice of the government reform. It indicates that the government supervisor mode will be changed from government to governance. Nowadays, China is facing the transition of the public administration mode and the governance structure. The government and a series of public behavior subjects take the responsibility for its public affairs management together by way of pluralism. Among them, the non-profit organization, regarded as one of the main governance subjects, is playing a more and more important role. The interactive cooperation between the government and the non-profit organization has important signification for forming a good governance structure. However China is currently undergoing a transition period. For some subjective and objective limitation, the classification of the relation between the society and the government is illegible, and "the government choice mode" controls non-profit organization; addition to, non-profit organizations' own ability is insufficient. These cause unequal dependent-relation between the strong government and the weak society. This kind of unequal dependent- relation not only does not favor non-profit organizations' own development, also does not favor the advancement of government reform and the establishment of civil society. Therefore based on our country's realistic situation, using the related disciplines of public management science, science of administration and politics, with adoption of literature analysis, normative analysis, systematic analysis and the method of theory combining with practice, this article has studied the relation between the government and the non-profit organization. The research pointed out that the government should establish a partner-like cooperation with the non-profit organization, which is based on the mutual confidence, consultative, and the competitive foundation. Through the comparison of the relationship between the government and the non-profit organization at home and abroad, this article has analyzed this relationship in China. Based on the classification of the non-profit organization, this paper has given a concrete analysis of the Chinese government and the non-profit organization relation models. After having analyzed the barriers which block the establishment of a partner-like cooperation between the government and the non-profit organization, this article proposed that establishing institution-oriented complementary cooperation is a way to promote unequal dependent- relation changing into partner-like cooperation and put forward some related policy suggestion. This study has certain theory value and the practical significance for propelling government reform, promoting the non-profit organization development, raising the level of public affairs management, and satisfying the interests of the general public. |