Abstract: Government-led and extensive participation of social forces in the construction and operation of urban reading spaces have become a new form of promoting the public cultural service system development. The article analyzes the driving forces of urban reading space construction upon government-community cooperation from the three perspectives, namely, national policy drive, government transformation drive and social demand drive, and sorts out the effects of urban reading space construction in Hefei. It points out that the city is driven by the two-wheel drive of government and society. The main cause of the lack of motivation for reading space construction are the limited motivation of social forces to innovate, the imbalance of construction and operation subjects, the single actor of evaluation and supervision, and the slow effectiveness of publicity and promotion. In view of the dual role of the government system reform and the construction of the public cultural service system, it proposes to improve the rewards and incentives mechanism to stimulate innovation and vitality, improve the communication and coordination mechanism, pay attention to the cultivation of social forces, reduce administrative intervention, promote the separation of management from evaluation, pay attention to publicity and promotion, and adhere to a characteristic and differentiated path of development.