The development the “third sector” represented by charitable organizations in China has been shed high light upon by the government and whole society since the “Reform and Opening”，and has been growing fast.Both the status and function of charity involving in the social governance has recently been highly spoken.Furthermore，as the Charity Law of the PRC came out in 2016，it also poses new requirements on the practice of charity.Guangzhou city has always been a good practitioner following the policy and law to form its own unique way.This article aims to demonstrate the significance and necessity of charity participating in social governance by theory study and then uses case analysis and comparison to discuss the results for now and future chances，which may contribute to building Guangzhou as the“city of philanthropy”.Charitable organizations in Guangzhou have achieved remarkable results in participating in modern social governance，and the modern philanthropy system has basically been established.Through self-improvement and self-regulation，charitable organizations have improved their ability to participate in social governance.In addition，charitable organizations have achieved diversified and endogenous development，actively seek and expand the channels for participating in social governance，and actively leverage social capital to boost new state-society relationship.In the future，charitable organizations in Guangzhou still need to constantly improve themselves，actively participate in social governance and cooperate with other social subjects.