Since the party’s 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the decision to “ecological civilization” in November 2012, ecological civilization and environmental protection have gradually entered the public’s vision and become one of the key areas focused by everyone. At the same time, according to the《List of Classified Management of Environmental Protection Verification Industry of Listed Companies》issued by the Ministry of Environmental Protection in 2008, the coal industry is classified as one of the 16 heavily polluted industries. The level of the information disclosure is still low in China. Corporate environmental awareness is not strong so they don’t have strong willingness of discloser .By analyzing the subjects, it’s not hard to see that because of the lack of standards and specifications,enterprises have no unified standard to recognize and measure the environmental elements, as well as the content and form of information disclosure.
Therefore, with the increasing public awareness of environmental protection and the country’s implementation of environmental protection policies, Choosing coal industry as one of the heavy polluting industries as the research sample, and choosing a well-targeted enterprise, China Coal , for specific analysis, has certain practical significance for discussing the professional issues in the field of environmental accounting information disclosure in China, and put forward the corresponding improvement countermeasures.
Keywords:Coal industry; environmental accounting; information disclosure; Disclosure mode; China Coal