As a new enforcement mode of environment law,environmental administrative interview has its independent legal value,and it is in line with the transformation needs of the current environmental governance model from administrative compulsory to administrative services.Through investigating the domestic legislation and practice of the system and analyzing the enforcement mode of international administrative law,we find there are many problems in China about administrative interview system.For example,the higher level legal norms framework is absent,the reasons for administrative interview are not scientific,administrative interview results are far from the non-mandatory track,and administrative interview programs are lack and so on.Based on the theory of environmental governance,environmental administrative interview is a kind of administrative guidance.In future,on one hand,we should attach importance to incentive and precaution and make clear the legal nature; on the other hand,we should enhance legislative supply,make practice operation normative and improve the enforcement effect.