The adoption of the new Environmental Protection Law by the Standing Committee of the Twelfth National People’s Congress and its implementation in 2014 marked the development of the environmental law from the dimension of “legislative centrism” to that of “democratic legislation and public participation in the implementation of law”，and from the traditional mode that emphasizes environmental regulation to a modern mode of “multi-governance and social participation”. The new law will have a profound and positive influence on the improvement of environment legislative system，the transition of the mode of environmental law enforcement，and the rise of the capacity and level of administration of environmental justice and play the guiding role in and provide fundamental institutional safeguard for the development of the rule of law in the field of environmental protection in China.