Kunming is planning to establish an environmental protection trial court in the municipal intermediate people's court to hear litigation on environmental public interest cases and inter-regional environmental pollution cases.

Criminal, civil, and administrative cases that involve environmental protection and other related cases executed by the four-in-one trial mode will be prosecuted by the environmental protection bureau to the court.

The court will be entitled to deal with inter-regional environmental pollution litigation since there are rivers and lakes flowing through several administrative regions. Alao, Kunming Environmental Protection Bureau will file to the people's court as the legal body safeguarding the public interest.

The implementation plan of the environmental court has already been worked out, and is waiting for approval by the municipal government.