E-governance has been widely applied throughout the world. In recent years, the e-governance has also witnessed in-depth development in the recent years. The release of government information is a key area of application in order to let more people share the convenience and information brought about by e-governance. On the other hand, government information release is an important task of modern government. While promoting government information release in Shanghai, we should pay more attention to giving full scope to the potential advantage establishing e-governance. First, IT application departments should be mainly responsible for government information release. Second, releasing information on government website is the first choice. Third, encourage government departments to process application of information release by means of e-governance.