Abstract: Wicked problems are the most concerned social problems in the twenty-first century.With emergence of a large number of wicked problems,the traditional societal governance model has become increasingly ineffective because its poor performance.Based on a reflection of the failure of traditional societal governance model and the essence of wicked problems,network governance,which take complex reflection group as its logical start,improve the production of public values as its goal,by exploring a variety of forms of governance network,and in which explore several means,such as public value reproduction in governance networks,the expansion of the deliberation,the adaptability of societal governance in governance networks,can improve the governability of wicked problems.However,this does not mean that network governance is a panacea for all public problems,in reality,when dealing with the governance of wicked problems,we should reflect the limits of network governance.

Key words: wicked problems, network governance, reflective rationality, public values