Abstract:Environment protection issue has been a trans-displinary public policy issue on government agenda. However, research on how China’s long mid-term S&T planning promote environment protection remains a gap to be filled. The core research question of this paper is how environment protection has been set in China’s long mid-term S&T planning and its macro-evolution map behind. The conclusion is reached by drawing institution setup of environment protection under China’s S&T policy from 1949-2015 is gathered in the way of quantitative research data by analyzing its general trends, historical periods, evolutional characteristics, etc. The innovative part of this paper is to explore a theoretical framework to tackle environment protection by a trans-sectional way, and to build up a full-time sample library of how China’s long mid-term S&T planning promote environment protection in practice.