On October 19,2011,the Intermediate Court of Qujing City,Yunnan Province accepted and heard the public-interest lawsuit filed by Friends of Nature and other non-governmental organizations on the Qujing chromic slag pollution incident. This lawsuit is considered the ice-breaking case of environmental litigation for public interest in China. Environmental Although environmental protection courts have been set up in 9 provinces and 2 municipalities in China,the acceptance and hearing of such lawsuits is still much less common,leaving most of these courts short of any case to hear. To solve this problem,related legislations should be initiated actively and properly by first identifying environmental protection organizations' judicial competency as the subject of action. <<