Administrative normative documents have been added to the scope of judicial review in the revised "Administrative Litigation Law", which establishes the basic framework wherein administrative power is checked and balanced by jurisdiction. In practice, however, many normative documents fail to be included in the procedure of judicial review due to the ambiguous and contradictory reviewing standards. Even though they are reviewed, these documents are usually not identified as illegal ones. This is contrary to the original intention of the design of the normative document filing and reviewing system. For this reason, on the one hand, judicial supervision should be strengthened. On the other hand, the qualified parties that can initiate judicial review need to be redefined and the scope of review ought to be expanded. Meanwhile, administrative self-examination should be further improved via internal review and external supervision at the initial stage. This paper, based on current-system experience in China, expects to enhance the reviewing validity of normative documents effectively, so that proper legal binding force can be applied to the administration of social affairs.