Abstract: Objective management system is an important institutional arrangement in China’s rural governance. Taking S town in Shanghai as the research object，this paper analyzes the reasons，evolution，implementation and effectiveness of objective management system，and analyzes the difficulties faced by objective management system in three policy stages，namely policy formulation，policy implementation and policy evaluation. Based on the analysis of objective management system，the general ideas of rural governance such as classified governance，the balance between economic development and social governance，and the benign interaction of multiple subjects are put forward.

Key words: rural governance, objective management system, governance path, classified governance