Abstract: In the modern corporate governance system, the political association is the inevitable phenomenon. The board governance is one of the core elements of corporate governance, and the board of directors of the listed Banks in our country is restricted by political connection. Under the political relevance perspective, based on the governance of listed Banks data, by means of multiple regression analysis method, empirical research reveals the microscopic mechanism of the board of directors of the listed bank governance, founds that political connection of board chairman has positive effect in corporation governance, puts forward the improvement measure of board governance of listed banks, which may improve the board governance quality of the listed Banks.

Key words: political association, listed banks, the board of directors, corporate governance, bank competitiveness