Abstract
While China was going through rapid economic growth, serious pollution and emerging environment protests have become the dark side of development. Facing these problems, the Chinese government has been trying to establish a governance model that is more open to the public and involves more citizens’ participation to enhance accountability. The promotion of environment information disclosure policy by the Ministry of Environmental Protection in recent years can be seen as a big step toward ecological modernization. With the legitimacy given by the state, there have been some cases in which ENGOs successfully hold local governments accountable for transparency, or pressurized multinational corporations into greening their supply chain through various strategies. By taking advantage of the additional political spaces created by fragmented authoritarianism, ENGOs can be more active in monitoring pollution. However, due to political and institutional constraints, the influence of ENGOs over the state and corporations still remains limited.