ABSTRACT
Since the promulgation and implementation of China's Civil Code, theoretical discussions about codifying China's Environmental Law have been underway. However, the current system of environmental law in China is incomplete in terms of the legal origins of environmental law and the integrity of the system. Over the past decade, the discussion on the codification of environmental law in China has explored the main obstacles and ways to address them. At present, China's environmental law faces several difficulties, including an indeterminate ecological and environmental legal system, a mix of joint party and government normative documents and environmental laws, structural changes in the ecological and environmental management system and blurred boundaries in the environmental code. To address these challenges, the existing separate environmental regulations should be maintained while a sound system is developed before writing a comprehensive code. In the future, there could be attempts with the modest co-existence between separate environmental laws and codes.
