Marriage and family law is divided into three stages of development as far as its history is concerned.

New China's marriage and family law went through the initial development marked by the 1950 Marriage Law, the stagnation from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s, and the restoration and development marked by the 1980 Marriage Law, and then gradually formed a decentralized structure in the 1990s with the Marriage Law as the mainstay, the Adoption Law and the Regulations on the Administration of Marriage Registration as the supportive bodies, and the relevant norms and sources of law of different levels of validity in other sectoral laws as supplements.

Along with this, the study of the revision of the Marriage and Family Law by the legal profession began in the late 1980s, tended to become more ****cognizant in the mid-1990s, and has been put on the agenda of the legislative work, with a preliminary "expert draft" completed and discussions underway.

Scholars involved in this important cross-century legislative research activities, should feel a heavy academic and historical responsibility.

In this regard, I would like to put forward a rough idea on the five aspects of the macro-positioning of China's marriage and family law, with a view to enhancing and deepening it for colleagues in the academic community, and incorporating it into the construction of specific legal systems.