Abstract: General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in the report of the 19th National Congress of CPC that“continuously promoting social fairness and justice, forming effective social governance and a good social order” is an important support for “improving security and improving people’s livelihood.” Integrating social justice into the concept system and institutional supply of state governance is an inevitable choice for state governance in the new era. Social justice is an important feature of state governance in the new era, which constitutes the value interest and practice orientation of state governance. The improvement efficiency of the social justice embodied in the national governance system and the capacity of the state governance is of great significance in shaping the traction mechanism of state governance and promoting its modernization process. The important way to get rid of the imbalance and inadequate development and to promote the modernization of the national governance in the new era is to shift from the unified and one-way government management into the social justice-oriented state governance. In this regard, it is necessary to construct the state governance under the guidance of social justice on such levels as the political support, economic support and cultural support, that is, to build a governance system of co-construction, co-governance and co-sharing, to construct a distribution justice-oriented national governance in the new era, and to foster the cultural soil for the concept of social justice.

Key words: social justice; new era; national governance; distributive justice