ABSTRACT
China has witnessed increasing awareness of environmental protection in general and nature conservation in particular, and this awareness is reflected in both law making and policy making. This chapter aims, first, to present the current legislative and policy frameworks of protected area (PA) management and their evolutionary processes and then to summarize the characteristics and deficits of the current framework. Before moving forward, some introductory remarks on the general institutional structure, the typology and the hierarchy of legislative documents in China are provided to facilitate further discussion in the following chapters.
