Abstract: This paper comprehensively reviews the local social management innovation from the aspects of electronic governance, folk organization management, citizen’s participation, community management; maintaining society’s stability, democratic decision or deliberative democracy, village governance, etc. Furthermore, it summarizes the practice of local government’s social management innovation, including the practice researches on community management innovation, social safety management innovation, improving people’s livelihood, enhancing equality of public services, sci entific decision mechanism of social management, etc