The “2012 China·Practice·Management Forum” was successfully held in Shanghai Jiaotong University on December 8th and 9th, 2012.Based on the achievements of the previous two forums on the content, path, evaluation and initiatives of the management research of China’ practices, we discuss the problems related to the practiceoriented management research with the theme of “ phenomenon·essence·countermeasures ”. In this paper, we review the main arguments of the participated scholars from the perspective of the importance, norms and path of practiceoriented management research, research progress and reflection.