The Provisional Constitution is one of the most important achievements of the Revolution of 1911 and a bourgeois constitutional document in the legislative history of China. It not only declared the end of China's feudal autocratic monarchy which lasted for more than two thousand years, but also established bourgeois democracy and the political system of the country.

During the existence of Nanjing Provisional Government, it became the basis for formulating other revolutionary decrees, guided the legal construction of Nanjing Provisional Government, and made the concept of democracy and harmony deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. After Yuan Shikai tore up the contract law and the imperial system went its own way, the contract law became a banner for Sun Yat-sen to lead the movement of protecting the law and oppose the restoration of autocracy.

Of course, due to the bourgeois nature of the contract and the weakness of the bourgeois revolutionaries, it inevitably has fundamental defects, such as not stipulating any clauses against imperialism and not touching the foundation of the feudal system-feudal land ownership. In a word, the temporary contract law has existed for a short time, but the experience it provides is very valuable and the lessons are very profound.

The Contract Law discusses how to consolidate the revolutionary achievements in the form of law and how to straighten out the relationship between political power and law. The bourgeoisie realizes that law is an extremely important tool in the process of consolidating the revolutionary regime, but it is not omnipotent. Especially in a country with a history of two thousand years of feudal monarchy, the law is subordinate to the political power both in concept and in practice. At the same time, the final failure of the treaty also shows that the bourgeois constitution is difficult to implement in semi-colonial and semi-feudal China.