Ecological civilization and postmodernization in China

Relevance of the article is that the problem of environmental pollution in China is very serious. In the light of this, the Chinese leadership has offered a new political slogan «ecological civilization». The author reveals the problem of the construction of ecological civilization in China, in terms of legal regulation development in the sphere of environmental protection. So as in terms of the analysis of the philosophical aspects of the development of the ecological civilization, such as the spread of Western anthropocentrism in the modern Chinese society, the revival possibility of ecological consciousness that should be brought up by the traditional Chinese culture, etc. The institutional barriers in the Chinese society towards the creation of ecological civilization are revealed. The ecological civilization is considered within the context of the problem of post-modernization or secondary modernization of the Chinese society.