因公共利益需要征收私有财产是社会发展中不可避免的。随着城市建设步伐的加快,城市房屋的征收拆迁势头越来越强,由此引发的矛盾越来越多,对公共利益的准确界定成为当务之急。公共利益作为法律概念,在不同法律的不同时期,其概念不尽相同。如何规范这一概念,用何种原则和程序进行界定,是本文探讨的重点。通过对现行法律对公共利益的界定研究,以期对政府征收实践活动有一定的指导意义。 It is unavoidable in social development that private property needs to be collected for the public interest. With the accelerated pace of urban construction, urban housing acquisition and demolition momentum is getting stronger and stronger, resulting in more and more contradictions, the accurate definition of the public interest has become a top priority. The concept of public interest as a law, in different periods of different laws, the concept is not the same. How to regulate this concept, with what principles and procedures to define, is the focus of this paper. Through the study of the definition of the public interest in the current law, it is instructive for the government to impose its practical activities.