In recent years, evidence-based policy-making has raised a wave of changes on policy "effectiveness" globally. At the same time, the concepts and frameworks of evidence-based policy-making are being challenged more and more both in theory and practice. Based on the theory of governance and good governance, many scholars have explored the concepts related to "evidence-based governance" to fill the gap between the trend of "evidence-based" thought and the mainstream public management theory. This article illustrates the logic of change from evidence-based policy-making to evidence-based governance from the perspectives of production, evaluation, utilization and the value propositions of evidence, and puts forward three elements of evidence-based management, including evidence, leadership, and public value comparing with the three elements of evidence-based medicine. The article examines the methodological similarities and differences between systematic review research，the main research method in the evidence-based field,  in evidence-based medicine and in the field of public management and presents a systematic review case in public management field in Campbell database， and discusses its methodological implications. The future research questions of evidence-based governance include the construction of middle-level theory, knowledge transformation, methodology, indigenous research and the evidence-based governance under the background of big data and social computing.