The Path of Codification: A Case Study on the Institutional Construction of Incorporating Wild Plant Protection Systems into the Code

Against the backdrop of codification, it is necessary to consider the legislative status quo and theoretical value of the wild plant protection system. Aiming at the legislative shortcomings such as the incomplete legal system for wild plant protection, low hierarchical status, imperfect list system, and inability to connect with other departmental laws, a two-step strategy is proposed. The first step is to identify and fill gaps, summarize, and classify existing norms; the second step is to moderately codify by incorporating relatively important and programmatic provisions into the Ecological Environment Code. It is essential to systematically sort out legal systems, clarify legislative gaps, remedy legislative defects, learn from foreign experience, construct a systematic and ecological wild plant protection system, and enhance the codification level of China’s natural resource regulations.