Publicbenefittype scientific research institutions are public service organizations set up by implementing governmental public administration duty and by following national laws. Under the background that innovationdriven development strategy has become the breakthrough policy for the economic and political transition development, how local publicbenefittype scientific research institutions better clarify their development positions and play public service duty given by the governments has become an important topic faced by local publicbenefittype scientific research institutions in a new round of system reform for science and technology. This paper restructures the function and position based on the internal property of publicbenefittype scientific research institutions and according to this, designs their development path.