Since being promulgated in 2000, the law plays an important role in standardizing lawmaking activities, though for ordinary people, it is not too familiar. But along with the NPC's two discussions last year, the law as well as the aim and significance of its revision lodged itself deeper in people's minds.

The revision of the Legislation Law plays a vital role in improving the efficiency and quality of lawmaking activities, said Jiang Ming'an, a professor of Peking University. In the draft, the scope of institutions allowed to make laws is properly expanded, which helps address the gap between demand and supply in the legislation. Improving the supervision of the lawmaking process makes problems like arbitrary, excessive or illegal lawmaking or exceeding the scope of one's power in lawmaking less likely to happen.

A Web user left a comment – "the law standardizes the lawmaking process" – on the news that the revision draft was delivered for discussion. It is the precondition to promote the rule of law. The netizen also said that the revised law will make Chinese lawmaking more efficient and of higher quality.

Laws that concern you the most

Promoting the rule of law in a comprehensive way means it will be relevant to everyone's life. But for ordinary people, what laws concern them the most?

The sample investigation made by Baidu Index on 10 popular laws showed that the food security law topped the ranking in the past two years, with 1,794,496 searches made in 2013 and 1,796,591 in 2014.

It was followed by the work safety law, the search of which reached 1,293,073 times in 2013 and 1,596,486 in 2014. It shows that safety in the living and production sectors is the top concern. In addition to expectations of safe food and working environments, people's hopes for a blue sky are also expressed by their attention to the relevant laws.

Another law-related key word from 2013 to 2014 is the environmental protection law. During that period, the searches made on Baidu surged 47.95 percent from 297,960 to 440,827.

The search for the prevention and control of atmospheric pollution picked up from 231,488 in 2013 to 254,138 times in 2014, as it was handed over to the NPC standing committee for discussion and revision late last year, ranking the fifth among the 10 laws selected for sample investigation.