2008年10月1日,《湖南省行政程序规定》正式施行。作为行政机关作茧自缚的典范、作为我国大陆地区行政程序立法的破冰之作,该规定的出台引发了广泛关注,也必然在2008年的公法事件中占据重要位置。本文在分析行政程序立法缘何在湖南省破冰的基础上,提出在我国当前改革开放日益进人深水区的情况下应当重点关注地方先行先试模式,充分发挥该模式在制度变革中的积极作用。一、行政程序立法在湖南省破冰的原因 October 1, 2008, “Hunan Province Administrative Procedure Provisions” came into effect. As an example of cocooning and binding of administrative organs, as the ice-breaking work of legislation on administrative procedures in Mainland China, the promulgation of this regulation has aroused widespread concern and inevitably occupies an important position in public law events in 2008. Based on the analysis of the icebreaking policy in Hunan Province, this paper puts forward that in the current reform and opening up in our country, we should pay more attention to the local first try mode and give full play to the active role of this model in the system reform. First, the administrative procedure legislation in Hunan Province ice breaking reasons