Abstract: Emancipating the mind provides a powerful ideological weapon of understanding the reform of China's administrative system. At the same time,it requires China's administrative system reform adhere to the principle of seek truth from facts. Therefore,it is the ideological basis of the reform of China's administrative system. Emancipating the mind is the power to promote the deepening of he reform of China's administrative system. The correct understanding of the main contradiction development and the stage of our society opens the exploration of China's administrative reform. The new breakthrough understanding of the market economic promotes the change of government function. The historical course of the relationship between emancipating the mind and the reform of the administrative system gives us profound enlightenment: Deepening the reform of the administrative system must adhere to emancipating the mind. At the present,we must grasp the transformation of government functions as the core, straighten out the relationship between the responsibilities of departments, speed up the construction of service type government, persist in active and prudent policy.