As the cardinal system of the modern administration procedure law, hearings are the important approach by which private party in administration takes part in administrative process. The private party positively participates the administrative process, presenting his opinions to administrative agency and having the involved into the decision of the agency, thus attends the decision-making that affects his rights and obligations. All of them embody the fairness and democracy. In 1996, China set up the hearing firstly, in "Administration Punishment Law ".The application scope of hearing has been attended continuously. The hearing plays important role in promoting administrative democracy and maintaining legal rights of the opposite person in administrative action. However, since China starts rather late in introducing this system, there are some shortcomings within the current system. And in practice, hearings haven not their roles partly. So in this essay, the author introduces the fundamental theory of the hearing, analyzes the current state hearing system in China today and raises several suggestions as to the hearing.
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