| Government purchase must reflect the environmental commonweal for promoting resource conservation, environmental protection and creating sustainable consumption patterns. Government green purchase refers to the government's action of planning to purchase and use product or the service conforming to the environmental protection standard. It sparkplugs sustainable consumption which embodies the "ecological-based" purchase concept. Government green purchase system is a rule which regulates public department purchase to realize the aim of government-anticipated environmental protection through legal means. The condition of implementing the government green purchase has been basically mature under the current construction of environmental friendly society in China. However, at the present there still have no specific rules to guide and regulate government green purchase behavior in our country. And there is still a greater randomness in the actual operation. So it is imperative under the situation to establish government green purchase system at once.This paper demonstrates the basic principles and the establishing proofs of the government green purchase system by expatiating on its contents, identities and significances. It introduces government green purchase practice and the successful legislative experience of Germany, Japan, Britain and the United States. It explores in depth from various respects on the constructive contents of legal system about the government green purchase in China, including the government main responsibilities, the environmental label system of products, the monitoring system, the standard system, the inventory system, the notice systems of information and the reward system. It has great prospects for the government green purchase system. By carrying out its theoretical research actively, it will surely promote the Chinese government purchase for the environmental label products and advance the process of environmental friendly society.
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