Since American scholars Perry and Wise put forward the concept of public service motivation in 1990, the research on public service motivation have been concerned by a lot of scholars. Many Chinese scholars have promoted the study of public service motivation since the beginning of 21 century and a lot of writings have emerged.Through empirical investigation of Chinese civil servants in Lijiang city of Yunnan province, this paper draws some valuable conclusion. Based on the above research

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... sion, the paper puts forward the following suggestions: (1) Strengthening the government civil servants public service awareness training and promoting the spirit of public service; (2) reforming existing incentive mechanism and enhancing the government's job satisfaction of civil servants; (3) strengthening the government civil servants occupation management and establishing the concept of occupation.