Based on the development of foreign government data opening,the important characteristics of foreign government data opening were summarized,including the perfect laws and regulations system,professional data open web site and application needs guidance.The necessity of opening China government data was analyzed from requirement of data opening in the big data era,improving the governance capability and promoting the innovation development.The problems of government data opening in our country in the aspects of law,regulation,system,consciousness and management were summarized.The countermeasures and suggestions were proposed from the aspects of building code and standard system,data opening and sharing mode,government data opening management,data security and data application.