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China Issues Environment Prize

Yin Yuzhen, who lives in the heart of the storm-ridden desert of Inner Mongolia, lives a completely different life from that of Bo Xilai, head of a Chinese province. For 15 years, Yuzhen and her husband have devoted themselves to the fight against moving dunes by planting more than 300,000 trees, which shelter their home village from ferocious sand storms.

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Great efforts made by environmental protectors

Meanwhile, Bo Xilai, now the governor of northeast China's Liaoning Province, had been working hard to face-lift the heavily-polluted Dalian when he served as the city mayor.

Thanks to comprehensive pollution-control measures advanced by Bo and his colleagues, Dalian turned into a garden city within several years and won the title of "Global Top 500" given by the United Nations Environment Program last year.

Today Yin Yuzhen, Bo Xilai and 14 others stood side by side to receive the China Environment Prize, the top honor in China to recognize those who have made significant contributions to environmental protection in the country.

Environment prize launched

It was the first time the China Environmental Protection Foundation, a non-governmental organization offering education and international exchange activities as well as awards, has presented the biennial prize nationwide.

Each final winner is awarded 100,000 yuan (12,000 U.S. dollars) and the other nominees receive 10,000 yuan.

Foreigners may also become the prize winners in the future if their work can greatly benefit the environmental protection work of China, according to Wang Yuqing, a member of the organizing committee of the prize.

Prize winners

Organizer of a national afforestation activity along the Yangtze and the Yellow rivers, in which millions of youngsters get involved, and Governor Bo came out as the two final winners.

Apart from Yin Yuzhen, those who won the prize for nominees included a middle-school teacher who paid his own way to take photographs of endangered wild animals in west China; a retired official who spent about 20 years in spreading knowledge of environmental protection; and a scientist whose research results were widely adopted in for air pollution control.

About China Environment Prize

Environmental protection is one of the global hotspots. In recent years,China's environment attracted the worldwide attention while China's impacts to the world becomes stronger.

Meanwhile, along with the improvement of environmental awareness in China, there have been quite a lot of people who cencern environmental protection,devoted tremseves into environmental protection and have made outstanding achievements.

In order to promote natlonal environmental awareness, China's environmental protection and sustainable development, according to the Charter of China Environmental Protection Foundation (CEPF), CEPF founded China Environment Prize."

The prize is a social reward for China's envlronmental Protection. The candidates are from all kinds of circles, both home and aboard. The process of the prize is also a course of publicizing environmental protection,educating the public and shoving the world China's environmental protection image.

China Awards Habitation Environment Prizes

The Ministry of Construction on January 7 issued two prizes: habitation environment prize and a model prize for habitation environment. Shenzhen and other 4 cities included, altogether some 28 items for air qulaity and environment pollution were selected.

According to reports, these have been the first of their kinds awarded in China.

China Awards Habitation Environment Prizes

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