During the past two decades, with the emergence of globalization and information economy, knowledge has become a core resource of organization, knowledge management (KM) presents an increasing importance at different levels, but how KM is applied in the public sector has not been sufficiently discussed. Negligence of context, over borrowed theories, concepts and frameworks from enterprise KM turned learning government into an alternative strategic objective of government KM in China. In this paper, the authors discuss the unreality of learning government by analysis of the conflict between org...