In March 15, 2017, the fifth session of the National People’s Congress of the people’s Republic of China adopted the “general rules of civil law”, which marked the first step of the codification of civil law in new China. The author experienced the whole history of the new China drafting of civil code, this paper introduces in detail the history of the first four civil codification activities, and on basis of which made an overall reviewof“the General Principles of Civil Law” The article pointed out that “the General Principles of Civil Law” both in the structure and main contents of accurately following the “General Provisions of Chinese Civil Law” approach.Of course, it has also a lot of innovations in the natural person, legal person, civil rights ,prescription and so on. Howeverthe article also pointed out that the General Principles still needs further improvementboth in terms of the specific content of civil rights and in the legislative technology innovation is not enough.