Abstract: The accedence to WTO brings a deep-going change in China’s legal system, setting new requirements to legislation both quantitively and qualitatively In order to meet the needs of the accedence to WTO, China should exert herself to improve the quality of cocal legislation, pushing forward the transformation of local legislation from “challenge——response type” to “response——innovation type”, and establishing a perfect legal system that is in harmony with the WTO rules, fits in with the needs of the development of the socialist market economy and promotes the all-round progress of the society.

Key words: WTO, local legislation