China Democracy and Legal System Publishing House was founded in February 1989. The publishing house has stuck to the tenet of "focusing on the work of the National People's Congress (NPC) and serving democracy and the legal system", adhered to the correct publishing orientation, and carried out various publishing activities, playing an active role in promoting the Constitution and laws the system of people's congress.

As a legal professional publishing house, China Democracy and Legal System Publishing House specializes in: practiceoriented books for state power, administrative, and judicial organs at all levels; legal books for professionals and for the public; law textbooks and counseling books; legal reference books; compilations and yearbooks of NPC work materials; books on NPC theory and practice; academic works; interpretations of laws and regulations; practical guides, and casebooks; and specialized works of law and jurisprudence, including translations, among others.