Abstract: Moral governance，with its broad and narrow sense，is a cross- disciplinary concept covering philosophy，political science，public administration，etc.Possessing such essential attributes as class，contemporaneity，and hierarchy，it aims at resolving social moral problems，building social ethics，and maintaining social orders，and finally achieving human freedom.The modernization of moral governance includes the modernization of its system and its capacity.The modernization of moral governance system includes the modernization of its content system，technical support system，and system of evaluation and supervision.The major marks for the modernization of moral governance capacity include multi-subject of governance，institutionalization and democracy of governance pattern，coordination of governance mechanism，and interaction between moral governance and legal governance.Moral governance has a limitation.

Key words: moral governance, modernization of moral governance, legal governance, limitation