Looking back at China’s legislative efforts, both successes and setbacks can find their historical and cultural roots. But direct and significant impacts are ideological and economic. The process is even more influenced by government strategies and policies. It is confined by political structure and restricted by present conditions of the legislatures, too.

A study of all these factors challenges China’s legislative past, present and future with the following questions:

1) Should China be governed by law or by will of man? What is the role legislation should play in the country’s pursuit of the rule of law and building of legal institutions?

2) How should China’s legal endeavors be tailored according to its national conditions?

3) How should the leadership of the party in power and legislation be balanced?

4) What should China’s legislative policies be based on?

5) What theological principles should China’s legislative practices follow? How should we balance conventional legislative theories with new legislative concepts?

6) How should the country’s legislative efforts be programmed and departmental laws be planned in a scientific way?

7) What kind of legislative power definition system and legal source system should be build?

8) How should the legislature and legislative working agencies be configured?

9) What type of legislation operative mechanism should China adopt?

10) How should the nation’s legislative and executive efforts be balanced?

11) How should lawmaking and enforcing efforts be joined together?

12) What is an appropriate relationship between the central and local legislative endeavors and between higher and lower level legislations?

13) How should the legislative techniques be upgraded? What tactics should be adopted in law making?

14) How should a mechanism of legislative evaluation, supervision and perfection be amplified?

15) How should the legislative mechanism be viewed and how to improve he evaluation, supervision of the mechanism?

16) How to correctly handle the relationship between China and foreign countries in legislation and how should China promote international exchange regarding legislation?

17) How should the Law on Legislation be evaluated and improved?