我国继承法颁布施行至今,已近五年,各级人民法院依此处理解决了大量的继承纠纷案件,取得了一定的成就。但不可否认我国的继承立法在某些方面尚存不足,遗嘱执行人制度便是其中之一。综观世界各国继承立法,遗嘱执行人制度始终占有重要的一席之地,我国继承立法同样也注意到这一点。但令人遗撼的是,遗嘱执行人的问题仅在继承法中略有提及,而无具体实质性内容的规定.这种现象的发生,在某种程度上是未充分了解遗嘱执行制度的意义所致。笔者以为,在我国健全遗嘱执行人制度,其作用是不可低估的,主要表现于如下 China's succession law promulgated so far, nearly five years, so people's courts at all levels to solve a large number of cases of succession disputes, and achieved some success. However, it is undeniable that our inheritance legislation is still inadequate in some aspects and the system of will executor is one of them. Looking at all the countries in the world that inherit the law, the executor system always occupies an important place, and our succession legislation also notices this. What is surprising, however, is that the question of the executor is mentioned only in the Inheritance Law without any specific substance, and to some extent this phenomenon is not fully understood about the system of executions Meaning. The author believes that in our country to improve the executor system, its role can not be underestimated, mainly in the following