Firstly the paper explains briefly the concept of the pre-trial preparatory procedure of civil action ;secondly it introduces in detail the concepts, contents and features of the pre-trial preparatory procedures in U.

From the developingdirection in the whole world, preparatory procedure has already increasingly played a veryimportant part.

The constructing of civil action preparatory procedure reflects the pursuit of the civil process value, subjection to its operation principle and the necessity of its modernization, internationalization of China.

Suggestions on the reform of China s pretrial procedures;

According to the reform in judicial proceedings, it is more necessary to construct the pretrial procedure, because it relates to the ultimate realization of the litigious rights of the parties and the construction of the independent pretrial procedure; especially it has far reaching significance to conclude the trial of a case quickly and fairly.

With the establishment of market economy system, along with its development in China, inherent drawbacks in civil procedural legislation are revealed, and the most striking problems of which is short of the pretrial procedure in a strict sense.

Pretrial preparation procedure is a significant part of civil judicial procedure, and attaches importance to improve the efficiency of civil action and to ensure the justice of civil action.

There exist quite some defects, both theoretically speaking and practically speaking, on pretrial preparation procedure in China s civil proceedings law.

The pretrial preparation procedure and the procedure value were analyzed.