The performance evaluation of government as the new public management is one of the core contents, with supervisory government power, enhancing the administrative performance and improve the image of the government role. However, at present, China's local government performance evaluation system is still wasn't strong enough, assessment is too onefold, weaken the subject of performance evaluation of the effectiveness of the results. And the citizen of the public service as a direct object and public service quality intuitive feel, who should undoubtedly be of local government performance evaluation is an important subject. In local government performance evaluation, introduced in the citizen participation, can improve the government performance evaluation system, improve our local government performance evaluation, enhance the present situation of the results of the assessment objectivity and effectiveness.Currently, the local governments in China in order to enhance citizens' satisfaction, and improve the service quality, develop the performance evaluation of government activities in succession, also began to actively explore citizens to participate in the performance evaluation of government practice mode. This article is to study, and appraises for further promoting the citizen participation in the thinking, to promote the work provides useful advice. The author believes that, the citizen participation government performance evaluation of advancing the political democratization, is helpful to perfect the theoretical system of the performance evaluation of government, to create a new situation of the administrative reform practice. This paper just in the background and significance, and on the basis of local government performance evaluation for the citizen participation in question for research. First expounded the performance evaluation of government of the citizen participating in the basic connotation; Second, through the review of performance evaluation of local government in the practice process citizen participation, this paper points out some existing problems, specific include participation and limited range, participation channel, participation conditions in the utility not deficient and high; Then from system dimensions, government dimension and the citizen dimension analyses the causes of these problems reasons; Finally, based on the participation of citizens in theory and from strengthening the system construction, convert administrative concept, develop folk organization, and enhance the citizen participation ability advances some corresponding countermeasures. |