法治是社会发展进步的一个重要标志,也是当下我国上下都予以普遍关注的一个热点话题,法治的发展在很大程度上取决于公民权利意识的觉醒和民主观念的进步。现如今,随着信息渠道的多样化和公开化,我国公民越来越关心与自身息息相关的一些公益事件。公益诉讼、行政公益诉讼甚至更为精细的环境行政公益诉讼越来越多地被公众提起和讨论。本文也将在这样的大背景下探析环境行政公益诉讼的一个方面,即环境行政公益诉讼原告资格的界定。 The rule of law is an important symbol of the progress of social development and also a hot topic of general concern to our country nowadays. The development of the rule of law depends to a large extent on the awakening of the awareness of civil rights and the improvement of the concept of democracy. Nowadays, with the diversification and openness of the information channels, our citizens are increasingly concerned about some commonweal incidents that are closely related to themselves. Public interest litigation, administrative public interest litigation and even more elaborate environmental administrative public interest litigation have been increasingly brought and discussed by the public. This article will also explore one aspect of the environmental administrative public interest litigation under such a background, that is, the definition of plaintiff qualification of environmental administrative public interest litigation.