The research paradigm of “problems-intellectual resources-countermeasures”  is adopted for this paper, in which Mohist intellectual resources are sorted and pertinent thoughts are picked to build fundamental theories for innovation of grass-roots social governance from a series of pointcuts. Interdisciplinary and literature research, questionnaire, field and empirical study are adopted for realistic analysis, to get a picture and identify the problems of current grass-roots governance; empirical study is conducted through comparative analysis and ...