As society develops rapidly, the important role of administrative agencies in the field of administrative law enforcement cannot be ignored. However, administrative agencies often formulate many normative documents to carry out social management due to the hysteresis and stability of the law. While some problems appear in administrative normative documents in practice, such as the irregular formulation of procedures, the conflicts between content and higher law, which makes the administrative agencies overstepping its authority to enforce the law and infringing on the rights of the citizens. What's more, the restriction of government power and the protection of the rights of counterparts are related to the legitimacy of normative documents.

       As for the Administrative Procedure Law that was amended, it stipulates that the major breakthrough in solving this problem lies in judicial review system of normative documents. What is stipulated in this system is that the court shall take the means of incidental review to make the legal review of the content of administrative normative documents, which should urge the administrative agency to make self-perfection after discovering legal problems. However, according to the provisions that combine law with judicial interpretation, after reading and sorting out related cases, it is found that many problems still exist in the judicial review system of administrative normative documents in China, which cover the plaintiff’s high requirements for qualification, inconsistent review standards of court and so on.

       In view of it, the empirical analysis method is adopted to carry out the research on Articles 53 and 64 of the new Administrative Procedure Law from the perspective of judicial review of administrative normative documents. Firstly, the core concepts of administrative normative documents and judicial review are defined, which combines with legislative regulations and academic viewpoints to make the discussion on their features, types, meanings and so on. Secondly, the latest cases are sorted out and summarized, which has an attempt to fully demonstrate the incidental review system in judicial practice, and makes summary of the problems. In the meantime, this phenomenon is analyzed from the starting procedure, review process and result of judicial review. Finally, some improvement measures from level jurisdiction, review standards, and judicial practice are proposed in view of the problems raised.