Abstract: It is a statutory obligation for governments at all levels to report environmental protection work to the People's Congress and its standing committee. Whether the environmental reporting system can be implemented or not reflects the determination and confidence of the governments at all levels to manage the environment according to the law. Practice has indicated that the implementation of the environmental reporting system in 2016 was not optimistic， but in 2017 it shows such characteristics as “the number of reporting entities has greatly increased， the content of the reports has become more standardized， and the reporting time has basically reflected the annual restrictions”， etc. However， it still has some problems such as insufficient disclosure of environmental report information， lack of active environmental reports by government departments， lack of normalized supervision mechanisms of the People's Congress along with supervision mechanisms of social participation， and also lack of legal liability mechanisms. In the future， in addition to disclosing the environmental reporting information timely and improving the government's accountability mechanism for not performing its duties according to law， it is necessary to strengthen the construction of the normalization mechanism of the People' Congress and the communication and connection between the People' Congress and the government.

Key words: environmental reporting system, the People' Congress supervision, environmental protection targets, environmental conditions