Environmental protection generally refers to the general term for human action to solve real or potential environmental problems, to coordinate the relationship between mankind and the environment, to protect the living environment of mankind, and to ensure the sustainable development of economy and society. Its methods and means of engineering and technical, administrative, but also economic, publicity and education.

The Fifth Plenary Session of the Eighth Plenary Session put forward: to increase environmental management efforts to improve the quality of the environment as the core, the implementation of the most stringent environmental protection system, in-depth implementation of the atmosphere, water, soil pollution prevention action plan, the implementation of the following environmental protection agencies monitoring and enforcement Vertical management system.

Environmental protection is environmental protection. Environmental protection involves a wide range of comprehensive, it involves many areas of natural sciences and social sciences, as well as its unique research object. Environmental protection methods include: to take administrative, legal, economic, science and technology, private spontaneous environmental organizations, etc., the rational use of natural resources to prevent environmental pollution and destruction in order to natural environment and human environment, economic environment, balanced and sustainable development, Expand the reproduction of useful resources to ensure the development of society.