Public opinion is a collection of personal opinions, attitudes and beliefs that the considerable number of people in society who are worth noting on a particular issue.
With the development of the society, the government’s executive powers is constantly expanding, the expansion of the public powers easily cause the corruption because of the abuse. Due to its own characteristics, it’s hard for the traditional methods of supervision to actively play its function, and the public opinion becomes an evitable mode of supervision which can excise oversight on modern governments in order to make them standardized the administrative. Significance of public opinion has long been known in the world today. China's socialist democracy is being constantly improved and developed. Public opinion as part of a socialist democracy is progressive and showing vitality. Public opinion contributes to stimulating the formation of public opinion citizenship and civil society, it will help to effectively supervise the socialist rule of law and democratic socialism, but it exists the limitation that can not be ignored. This requires strengthening its supervision in the legal system, the media and citizen participation, management initiatives and security mechanisms.