In 2014, the State Council of China issued the Decision on Accelerating the Development of Modern Vocational Education, which calls for innovating and developing higher vocational education, focusing on training technical personnel to serve social and economic development. Therefore, the study tries to explore American community colleges under the base on how to better respond to the needs of market development and how to improve and perfect the internal governance structure in the management of higher vocational colleges. In the United States, community colleges serve as higher vocational education, enrolling about 39% of students entering higher education each year and becoming an integral part of the governance system to maintain the social stability of the United States. Therefore, its internal management experiences is important for China, which not only respond to the goal of the current higher education reform and development in our country, but also increase the academic research in the issue of higher vocational education, and help to overcome the bottleneck of current management reform in higher vocational colleges of China, establish the sustainable development of governance mechanism. 

This study is based on the five principle of Bertalanffy’s the general system theory, which are the principle of integrity, interconnectedness, orderliness, open and dynamic. Based on it, the research constructs the overall research perspective of American community college internal governance system, which are the function, the environment, the elements, the structure, the process, respectively, and finally five core conclusions. First, the functional goals of the internal governance of American community colleges have experienced gradual development, since the end of the 19th century, and now tend to be comprehensive, including transfer education, vocational education, continuing education, development education and community education. Secondly, the external influencing factors are mainly divided into three categories: the cultural level, the government level and the social level. The form is the national spirit, the educational management thought and the community service concept; the middle is the federal government, the state government and the local governments; the latter are the development associations, certification organizations and foundations. Third, its components are generally composed of a network of principals, administrators, teachers, staff and students, namely six functional departments such as commercial and financial departments. Fourthly, its organizational structure can be divided into the creation of the simple type organization mode, the guidance of the mechanical type organization mode, entrusted by the type division of the organization mode, the flexible organization of coordination model and type "mission organization" mode of cooperation,and presents the pattern transformation phenomenon of unidirectional, unbalanced and close. Fifth, the operation of the system revolves around the core of decision-making process, which is divided into five links: planning, formulation, implementation, response and communication, and shows specific communication characteristics. 

Based on the analysis of the internal governance experience of American community colleges and the deficiencies of China's higher vocational education in management, this paper puts forward the following suggestions: expand the running function of higher vocational education and promote the mutual exchange and cooperation between it and other local schools; Strengthen the construction of the external environment of higher vocational education, innovate the management idea, transform the government function and give play to the positive role of the third party organizations in society; To construct the multi-subject co-governance of higher vocational education and realize the equivalence of powers and responsibilities and the coordination and cooperation among administrative functional departments; Promote the flat development of the internal governance structure of higher vocational education, and facilitate the communication and sharing among the planners, makers and implementers of decision-making; Promote the effective operation of the internal governance of higher vocational education to ensure the accurate transmission of information and the smooth communication of personnel.