Abstract:

Evidence discovery is an important way to achieve equality for prosecutors and defendants in criminal justice. Some countries such as the UK and the US have established a fully developed evidence discovery system，but studies on criminal evidence discovery system in China lags behind them. In recent years，appeals for establishing criminal evidence discovery system in China have become increasingly urgent. Many provinces have made exploration in practice，wihch has laid a foundation for the establishment of the system. China is to establish socialist criminal evidence discovery with Chinese characteristics as it has a good legislation foundation and rich experiences in practice，and it can learn from foreign evidence discovery systems. Feasibility studies of criminal evidence discovery system in China not only meets requirements of criminal justice reform，but also is conducive to the realization of equality of confrontation between the prosecutor and the defendant in criminal justice.

Key words: criminal procedure, evidence discovery, criminal justice, equality of confrontation, judicial efficiency