调解是当事人在公正第三方主持下自主解决纠纷的活动。在中国,民事诉讼法的一些规定背离了调解的本质,呈现出审判行为的某些特征,法院调解有审判化的倾向,社会调解的立法也受到影响。调解要求在自愿合法原则之下,查清案件事实、分清是非,并且可以公开进行。世界主要的调解规则是自愿性、独立性和公正性、秘密性三大原则。中国未来的调解立法应该回归调解本质,以三大原则为基础,修改完善相关规定,为纠纷当事人提供另一种形式的正义。 Mediation is the parties to independently solve disputes under the auspices of a third party. In China, some provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure have deviated from the essence of mediation, showing some characteristics of trial behavior. Court mediation has the tendency of trial and the legislation of social mediation has also been affected. The mediation requires that under the principle of voluntariness and legality, the facts of the case should be ascertained clearly and clearly and should be made public. The main mediation rules in the world are the three principles of voluntariness, independence and impartiality and secrecy. China’s future mediation legislation should return to the nature of mediation, revise and improve the relevant provisions on the basis of the three principles and provide another form of justice to the parties to disputes.