Home>News Center>China
       
 

Environmentalists vie for Green Figures awards
By Sun Xiaohua (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-11-14 05:15

Competition in an online poll to elect China's top 5 environmentalists is heating up.

Voters are currently faced with a shortlist of 20 nominees, but by the end of the month five will have been selected as China's Green Figures of 2005.

The list of 20 candidates came out last week, based on 35,823 Internet votes, letters and phone calls to the organizing committee.

The five winners will be announced at the opening ceremony of China's Environmental Cultural Festival at the end of this month .

"The prize of China's Green Figures is a prize for common citizens, who make great contributions to environmental protection," said Pan Yue, vice-minister of the State Environmental Protection Administration.

"The vote is decided by the public, to encourage more people to engage in the environmental cause," Pan said.

"Environmental protection needs the participation of all citizens. Anyone, no matter who they are, can contribute to the cause."

Tian Guirong, a farmer-turned battery seller, is one of the nominees.

"When I read a 1998 report about pollution caused by the improper disposal of waste batteries, I was shocked," she told People's Daily.

"I asked myself how much land and water would be polluted by the 3 million batteries I sold every year?"

Tian, in her 50s, lives in Xinxiang, Central China's Henan Province. Since 1998, she has voluntarily collected waste batteries.

At a personal cost of around 200,000 yuan (US$24,700), she has collected 65 tons of waste batteries, which have been transferred to the environmental protection bureau of Henan Province for proper storage and disposal.

Other candidates on the list include:

Liang Congjie who founded Friends of Nature, China's first environmental non-governmental organization to control desertification in the Alxa area of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Yuan Xueshun, who has protected swans for more than 30 years.

Zhao Yongxin, the first person to publicize the environmental problems at Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace.

When asked how it felt to be listed as a candidate last week, Song Jun, a member of the Alxa SEE Ecological Association, said that he did not even know his association had been nominated.

Another candidate, Liu Jianqiang, a reporter from Southern Weekend who has covered many important environmental issues, said he was just doing his job and never expected to be nominated.

"I don't think it matters who wins. Spreading the spirit of environmental protection is the important thing," Liu said.

Ma Lijun from the China Environmental Culture Promotion Association, the organizer of the election, is looking for greater public support.

"Public participation in the election is still not enough. Public awareness and knowledge about environmental protection need to be further strengthened," he said.

(China Daily 11/14/2005 page3)



President Hu in Madrid
Blasts hit chemical plant in Jilin
New Airforce uniform
  Today's Top News     Top China News
 

China mulls deregulating energy prices

 

   
 

6 missing, 70 injured in chemical plant blasts

 

   
 

Leaders expected to focus on economic ties

 

   
 

Special prisons for HIV/AIDS inmates

 

   
 

Processed poultry: Strict checks ordered

 

   
 

Briton claims to have beaten HIV virus

 

   
  Five officers punished for deaths of 85 in Typhoon Longwang
   
  President Hu arrives in Madrid for state visit
   
  At least 30 wounded in chemical plant blasts in Jilin
   
  'China has its own version of bird flu drug'
   
  Donald Tsang urges support for HK democracy
   
  16 killed in Inner Mongolia colliery blast
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  News Talk  
  It is time to prepare for Beijing - 2008  
Manufacturers, Exporters, Wholesalers - Global trade starts here.
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 久久午夜无码鲁丝片午夜精品| 你是我的城池营垒免费观看完整版| 制服丝袜怡红院| 天天澡天天摸天天爽免费| 中文字幕乱码中文乱码51精品 | 国产男女爽爽爽免费视频 | 亚洲精品成a人在线观看| 精品人妻人人做人人爽夜夜爽| 国产乱人视频在线播放| 黑人与欧洲性大战| 国产真实乱子伦精品视手机观看 | 亚洲最大视频网| 特级毛片全部免费播放a一级| 农民人伦一区二区三区| 老头天天吃我奶躁我的动图| 国产乱子伦农村叉叉叉| 高潮毛片无遮挡高清免费视频| 国产欧美综合在线| 香蕉视频国产在线观看| 国产麻豆天美果冻无码视频| 99视频精品国在线视频艾草| 女人张开腿让男人捅| 一二三四社区在线中文视频| 成人啪精品视频免费网站| 中文字幕无码不卡免费视频| 日本不卡一区二区三区四区| 久久国产精品成人片免费| 日韩国产欧美成人一区二区影院| 乳揉みま痴汉电车动漫中文字幕 | 四虎永久在线日韩精品观看| 国产色婷婷五月精品综合在线| 99久久99久久免费精品小说| 大香伊人久久精品一区二区| jizz之18| 天天做天天爱天天爽综合网| freehd182d动漫| 天天干天天干天天操| gogo全球大胆专业女高清视频| 天海翼一区二区三区四区| m.jizz4.com| 天堂mv在线免费播放|