| On March 5, 2015, in the 12 th session of the National People’s Congress second conference of the state council of the <government work report>, premier Li keqiang points out, Construction of ecological civilization concerns every aspect of people’s lives, and concerns the national future development, our country should strive to build a better home of ecological civilization. At present, the atmospheric environment pollution become more serious, especially give priority to the frequency happens of the urban haze weather, the urban ecological environment contradiction is more and more prominent. Premier Li keqiang stressed that we should be like a war on poverty declares war on haze. Chengdu, as the biggest cities in the west of China, according to the data published by Chengdu city bureau of statistics at the end of 2014, the current census register population of Chengdu city has more than 11.7 million people, the large-scale expansion of urban population has brought a great pressure to the urban environment, especially the atmospheric pollution performance obviously. Atmospheric pollution is closely related to our life, the most direct impact of air pollution is on people’s health hazard, and the behavior of the residents’ daily life are always affect the atmospheric environment, therefore, it is imminent to do the study of public participation in control urban air pollution.This article takes Chengdu as a case, under the perspective of “public participation is the basic power”, starting from the reality relation of atmospheric pollution and population health. Based on the essence of population and urban sustainable development theory, stakeholder theory, the participatory governance theory, public goods theory, From the analysis of the investigation about the public participation in atmospheric pollution control of Chengdu, combined with the survey data and the theoretical guidance, point out the mainly cause of the current defects of public participation in air pollution control are: the public participation information and channels are not free; the public understanding of damage to their health is not clear; Independent participation consciousness and public participation intention is not strong; Lack of government incentives to guide public participation; public participation way are single, and lack of participation channels; The guide of the folk environmental protection organization at the grass-roots level are missing. Based on the lack of public participation in air pollution control and causes, the paper puts forward Suggestions tentatively from the following aspects: The public participation in the information communication channels should be optimized and to lead public participation behavior; The public awareness of the atmospheric environment should be deepen; To improve the construction of public participation incentive mechanism, encourage the public to participate in the control of atmospheric pollution; To improve the laws of public participation in atmospheric pollution control and regulations and let the public knows in a timely manner; To encourage community environmental protection organization building, To build a policy and funding support stage actively. |