In recent years, the increasingly severe problem of environment pollution has seriously affected the quality of people’s life across the country. The environment issue has drawn more and more attention from the community and it has become a hot topic of the entire society. The development of heavy industry projects are often met with strong resistance from the local people, among which the PX project has become a "street rat" and PX plant siting has provoked many mass incidents.Frequent mass incident reflects the low practical public participation in the environment administrative licensing system and the insufficient communication between the government, developers and publics in our country. This thesis intends to take the public participation in environment impact assessment which is the most important phase of environment administration licensing system, thoroughly analyze the flaws of the system and propose some practical suggestions for improvement. |