The spirit of ruling by law in modern times is to administrate according to law. Administrative procedure legalization is an important guaranty, which promotes to realize the target of administrating and running our country according to law. In order to satisfy the need of our government function's changing after joining in the WTO, and overcome the widely existing situation, which is "Lay stress on entity, despise procedure" generally existing in our country's administrative law field, our country firstly established key content at the administrative procedure system——Hearing Procedure in The Law of Administrative Punishment. Hearing Procedure is originally derived from Britain's "Natural Fair Principle". It shows to realize fair result by just procedure. The regulations in The Law of Administrative Punishment mark that Hearing Procedure has been established as an independent legal system. Latterly, it is expanded by The Law of Price, The Law of Legislation, The law of Administrative Permit and The Enforcement Sketch of Wholly Promoting to Administrate According to Law which was made by the State Council. Eight years' practice shows that Hearing Procedure has got great improvements in promoting the administration according to the law in our country, but it still has some shortages: scope of application is relatively narrow, some related clauses' expressions are vague, procedure regulation is not complete and procedure system's construction is not perfect. This article tries to discuss Hearing Procedure's general theory, the characteristics of establishment and expansion. In view of the existing shortage of the procedure and combining the research achievements home and abroad, it puts forward an initial design which makes further our hearing procedure perfect. The author is looking forward to doing some profit exploring for our administrative procedure legalization.
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