1, "China Law Yearbook," is available for foreign readers to understand and study the basic situation of China's socialist legal system must have a comprehensive large-scale literature. Yearbook of legislation, the judiciary as the backbone, from a legal formulation, law enforcement, legal advocacy, education Fu and theoretical studies of various aspects of law to reflect the whole picture of China's socialist legal system. Contains a rich amount of information. Yearbook of the manuscript and information from the central and local departments and units to offer comprehensive and informative 'accurate and authoritative. 2, according to the CPC Central Committee in March 1998, "twenty years on the commemoration of the Third Plenum of the Eleventh Party notice" the spirit, in order to fully reflect China's reform and opening up two decades, the tremendous achievements of socialist legal system, we have published in "China Law Yearbook," based on the Editor, the "China Law Yearbook" (collection edition). Third, the book is divided into five parts. The first part of the monographs were engaged the National People's Congress, the State Council Legislative Affairs Office, Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Justice responsible person on the reform and opening up two decades, China's legislation, the Government has the rule of law, trial, prosecution, judicial and administrative work of writing monographs. The second part of the common laws and regulations, a selection of in June 1998 prior to the enactment of the common law in force, some administrative regulations. The third part of the judicial statistics, 1986-1997 contains the trial, prosecutors, public security, judicial and administrative departments of the four statistics. Milestones Part IV China's legal construction. Part V List of heads of departments of Politics and Law. 4, the book contains information, do not include Taiwan Province.