The relationship between central and local government is an important subject in the study of Chinese government and politics. With the reform and open policy development, especially the promotion of the status and function of local government in the economic reform, has proposed the new challenge to the intergovernmental relations. For that it has aroused extensive discussion and academic research. This article discuss the intergovernmental relation definition, characteristics, comparison of related concepts, research object and scope, research perspectives and Models, review comprehensively our country academic research about the intergovernmental relations theory. Intergovernmental Relations, first appeared in 1935 American Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, its purpose lies in the federal government officials face pressure to the recession, the federal system was different from the past mode of operation, and therefore the development of policy interaction. The concept of William Anderson founder, he is defined the intergovernmental relations as: the federal system of all types and all levels of government units appear a large number of important activity or interaction.([1]) Until the 50's, study began to pay attention to intergovernmental relations, and China scholars started research on the relationship between governments from late 90 century. Since then, many Chinese scholars began to intergovernmental relations showed great interest, in recent years, a lot of research papers and books published, promote the further study of our government's relationship. Generally speaking, China's intergovernmental relation research results are mainly embodied in the following aspects:
