Abstract: Entering the 21st century,risk social governance and the awakening of citizens’ awareness have put forward new requirements for evaluation.The evaluative state was conceived from the traditional administrative state.It is a new stage of development of the administrative state,which challenges the governance structure and governance model of the traditional state.At the same time,it also highlights many new characteristics and is an important presentation of the state transformation,which should be explored as a systematic concept.The evaluative state belongs to the level of state construction,which is to refine the governance capacity of the state on the basis of the construction of a democratic state.It focuses on the use of public power,responsibilities,organizational systems and management methods,and improves the operational performance of state power through evaluation.The evaluative state has introduced a complete mechanism to link the management formation style with the exercise of power,so that the power of evaluation is multiplied,interacting with the ability,power,and control in the governance field to shape different properties.