The present invention is to provide an AC type PDP which can be manufactured by an inexpensive thick-film process without a thin-film process which is difficult to manufacture an MgO protection layer and the like and which has a panel structure that can be driven at a low voltage. Of a pair of discharge electrodes, one electrode is formed as a so-called AC type electrode in which a conducting electrode material is formed as an independent floating electrode separated at every pixel, this floating electrode being connected through a dielectric layer to a bus electrode in a capacity coupling fashion. The other discharge electrode is formed as a so-called DC type electrode in which a bus electrode is exposed to the discharge space as it is. The above-mentioned two electrodes are paired to form an AC type PDP which carries out discharge display