Abstract: Innovating social governance and improving its scientific, precise and professional level is the common aspirations and pursuits of all sectors of society. Residents' satisfaction is the starting point and ending point of social governance innovation. From the perspective of social governance innovation, this paper systematically analyzes the social governance satisfaction of Chinese residents. It shows that the satisfaction needs to be improved, the adequacy and convenience of resources are the most important factors for residents, both the residential area and the residential community have a significant impact on residents' social governance satisfaction, and rural residents have the highest level of overall satisfaction. The government should push down the focus of social governance, raise the level of intelligence and specialization in social governance, pay attention to multi-sector cooperation, and increase the value of social governance services.

Key words: social governance innovation, satisfaction, residential area type, residential community type