The monitoring and evaluation of innovation ability of national innovative cities indicate that the construction of innovative cities has achieved remarkable results, with the innovation ability presenting an overall situation of "strong in the south and weak in the north", that scientific and technological innovation has become the core driving force for high-quality development of cities, and that the innovative development pattern of cities with different characteristics has initially formed. The paper suggests that innovation governance and innovation driving force should be regarded as the unified and common requirements of the construction of national innovative cities. Meanwhile, in terms of original innovation force, technological innovation force and achievement transformation force, every city should highlight its key points according to its own resource endowment, reflect the main innovation function at a different innovation level, and further explore the differentiated innovation development path.