Abstract: The Party and the State,since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, have attached great importance to the governance of formalism, and eradication of the formalism, a headache, has become the key task for both the Party and government departments at all levels. The topic has also drawn attention of Chinese academic circles, and thus come out many research findings of value by adopting diverse perspectives, among which a histological is brand new. Form becomes necessary because of the rationality and structure of organization, but formalism is the arrogation of instrumental rationality over value rationality, which deviates from the goal of organization and destroys the unity of content and form. Formalism has haunted over organizations for a long time, thus harming the purity of organizations. The pressure transmission in organizational behavior will promote the fermentation of formalism. The elimination of formalism, therefore, requires self-regulation of the organization. The fundamental way to resist formalism is to seek truth from facts and pursue the legalization and standardization of organizational behavior.

Key words: formalism, histology, organizational form, seek truth from facts, modernization of governance