Xi Jinping's holistic view on environment is a transcendence of the traditional egocentric view on environment. This holistic view on environment holds that environment is a natural object with integrity and finiteness, and that environment has both absolute finiteness and relative finiteness.To guide the construction of the knowledge system of the environmental law with Xi Jinping's holistic view on environment, some new concepts in the field of the environmental law should be established, such as environment unit, human-nature relationship, total behavior control and community with shared environment. To guide the construction of the environmental legal system with Xi Jinping's holistic view on environment, promoting harmony between man and nature should be included as one of the basic principles of the environmental law, and the common responsibility towards environment protection should be clearly developed.Besides, improvements should be made to the legal systems regarding total behavior control, regional cooperation in environmental protection and ecological compensation.