National Governance Studies (First Series) is an academic publication on national governance under the supervision of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and organised by the Institute of National Governance of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), with Prof. Ouyang Kang, director of the Institute of National Governance of HUST and a renowned philosopher, as the editor-in-chief of this publication.

National Governance Research (First Series) has three columns: "Governance Review", "Theory Seminar", and "Forum Collection", and includes "The FourIt contains articles such as "The Four Comprehensive Strategic Layouts: Initial Understanding Based on Textual Interpretation", "Social System Reform: The Foundation of Modern Social Governance", "Review, Progress and Prospect of China's Environmental Protection", "Challenges and Countermeasures of China's Sustainable Development Strategy", and "Moral Governance: An Important Dimension of National Governance".