China now is in the key stage of building a well-off society, and the public's requirement for environmental quality is increasing day by day.The 13th Five-year Plan proposed that the core of environmental protection in China should be to improve environmental quality, and the environmental management pattern aiming at environmental quality improvement is shaping.New pattern of environmental management pays more attention to the realization of personal environmental rights and interests of the public, and its goal and concept, legal obligations and responsibilities, control measures are obviously different from pollution-control oriented management model.The change of the management pattern raises new demands and challenges for environmental legislation, law enforcement and judiciary.The environmental legal system should be transformed based on the core of environmental quality improvement, and attentions should be paid to legislative goals, legal system, and judicial relief.