Introduction to China's Environmental Protection Laws.

Explores China's environmental laws, and the international, regional, and bilateral treaties to which China has become a signatory. Author's identification of environmental education as a kind of state-supported public good; Ministry of Education Vice Director Zhu Muju's reflections on the incorporation of environmental studies in basic education curricula; Zhu's advocacy for the reduction of the educational systems' emphasis on discrete testable knowledge codified in national textbooks.