Between Dreams and the Reality: Making of the Administrative Procedure Act in China

Abstract

The past two decades of law reforms since late 1970s have seen emarkable

developments with respect to administrative procedural system. The ideas of

procedural legality, fairness, legitimacy, and procedural rationality have been greatly improved and come into play in Chinas administrative process. In the meanwhile, however, the process of the administrative procedural reforms has also revealed a series of problems and challenges ahead. For instance, there exist crying problems in terms of procedural openness, systematization, institutionalization, and procedural reasonableness, to name just a few.