This paper summarizes the advantages of open government data of the Brazilian Federal Government in order to put forward feasible suggestions for the development of open government data in China. With literature review and survey of the websites, it is found that Brazilian government has made perfect policies and regulations, formulated detailed standards and processes to attract public participation and active international cooperation. Finally, the author puts forward three suggestions for China to open government data: to make top-level design, to attract the public participation and to dig the data value.