To boost social governance modernization by innovating social governance and improving social governance system is one of the important “four comprehensive” strategic layouts as well as an important support to modernize social governance system and governance competence. University think-tank,with its unique strengths, will play a vital role in innovating social governance. However, the lack of the corresponding system design, guarantee mechanism, and competitive environment has seriously restrained the effective display of university think-tank strengths. Therefore, in order to bring into full play the role of university think-tank in decision and consultation, we have to build system platform by strengthnening top design, cooperative platform by improving system construction, competition platform by creating market environment.