The establishment of government legal counsel system is the urgent need of the construction of law-based government, and is the inevitable way of social governance innovation as well as the realistic requirement of adapting to economic globalization. Many regions have explored a lot in government legal counsel system and accumulated rich successful experience, which played an important role in the argumentation of major government decisions, construction of major projects, emergency handling and daily administration. In order to promote the construction of government legal counsel system, the state should establish and standardize the legal counsel selection criteria, management mode, rights and obligations, the scope of services and protection of rights and interests.