The civilians’ concept of rule of law was shaped by the objective situation of nation’s rule of law and civilians’ subjective feeling of rule of law，it is an important part of the concept of rule of law，and it included civilians’ subjective cognition and objective cognition，perceptual cognition and rational cognition of rule of law. The degree of civilians’ concept of rule of law is an important touchstone to test the situation of nation’s rule of law，enhancing the civilians’ awareness of the rule of law is an important goal of the construction of the rule of law，The empirical study shows that the civilians have some fuzzy cognition on legislation concept，there is a big variation between the civilians and the legal person on judicial concept，the civilians’ degree of recognition and evaluation on law enforcement is very low，and they have different degree of cognitive error on the concept of abiding law. Strengthening the civilians’ concept of rule of law is both a national issue and a local task，it focus on the whole country，but spread out locally，based on the difference of the civilians’ concept of rule of law and the integration of local legislation and other factors，in the future，we can start from the perspective of local legislation，to correct the civilians’ error concept of the rule of law，close the civilians and legal person’s different cognition of rule of law，enhance the civilians’ concept of rule of law，and then providing motivation concept and condensing social consensus for promoting the rule of law comprehensively.