This article elaborates the market management experiences of environmental monitoring in China and other countries， and the exploration during promoting market management of environmental monitoring in China. It also analyzes the principal problems of current market management. Suggestions for promoting marketization of environmental monitoring are provided， which include speeding up the establishment of overall monitoring configuration that is suitable for China， improving systematic social supervision of environmental monitoring， making full use of the roles of the environmental monitoring association in the supervision， strengthening the supervision of social monitoring institutions， and improving the capability of social environmental monitoring institutions.