To protect the ecological environment, it is necessary to establish a more scientific system of environmental public interest litigation. At present, China's relevant systems are still in the initial stage, and improving the plaintiff's qualifications in environmental public interest litigation is a key step in promoting the development of environmental public interest litigation. In the judicial practice of our country, there are still problems where individual citizens have not been granted the plaintiff's main identity, environmental protection organizations have defects in their plaintiff's main identity, administrative agencies need to clarify their plaintiff's main identity, and procuratorial agencies have incomplete plaintiff's main identity. China should base itself on its national conditions, carefully draw on the scope of subjects that countries have the right to initiate environmental public interest litigation, grant individual citizens and clarify the plaintiff qualification of administrative agencies in environmental public interest litigation, relax the restrictions on social organizations initiating environmental public interest litigation, clarify the role of public prosecution agencies in environmental public interest litigation, and clarify the order of multiple subjects to sue, to establish a more scientific system for the qualification of plaintiffs in environmental public interest litigation.

Guo Li. Research on Plaintiff Qualifications of China's Environmental Public Interest Litigation. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 4: 86-96. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2024.060415.

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