How to be a Watchman of Hanjiang River?

Yun Jianli, a native of Xiangfan, Hubei Province, is the president of Green Hanjiang Association, a non-governmental environmental protection organization. In 25, he won the "Ford Motor Environmental Protection Award" and was named "southern window Person of the Year" in the same year. On April 22, 26, he won the "Earth Award". In November 26, she became one of the four candidates for "26 Green China Person of the Year" and the only one in Hubei Province.

As the initiator of the "Green Hanjiang River", Yunjian led a team to organize activities such as "Walking on the Xiangfan Section of the Hanjiang River", "Walking on the Tangbaihe River" and "Love the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, Beijing-Tianjin-Hunan Environmental Protection Friends Hand in Hand and Heart to Heart Action". She also worked with members of the "Green Han River" across provinces to urge the Henan provincial government to take action to control the small paper mills that polluted the Han River.

The Games was established to awaken people's awareness of environmental rights protection in Hanshui River and its tributaries. In recent years, with her unremitting efforts, the environmental protection atmosphere in Xiangfan City has become increasingly strong, and both urban residents and farmers living on the edge of the Hanjiang River and its tributaries have realized the importance of protecting the Hanjiang River. "Caring for water resources and protecting the mother river" has gradually become the conscious action of the general public.

yunjian has written many investigation reports and proposals, such as "It is urgent to control water pollution", "Urban air quality is worrying", "Don't turn the industrial park into a pollution source", "Standardize turmeric processing enterprises as soon as possible to prevent another major pollution source from breeding and spreading", and "The implementation of the middle route project of South-to-North Water Transfer Project should compensate the water resources and environmental losses in Xiangfan in time". Many times, it directly faced the main leaders of Xiangfan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government and actively made suggestions.

Since the establishment of "Green Hanjiang River" seven years ago, 25 environmental education training courses have been held under the organization of the Games. * * * 1,458 teachers from 819 schools and units and environmental protection volunteers from all walks of life participated in the study. Many teachers started from their own schools and carried out various environmental protection activities after returning to school. Environmental education entered the campus, rural areas and communities for 493 times, with a direct audience of more than 24, people.

After Yun Jian was transferred from Chongqing to Xiangfan City, Hubei Province in 1985, he successively served as a member of the CPPCC, a member of the Standing Committee, a member of the Provincial CPPCC and an executive committee of the Provincial Women's Federation. Having participated in political work for 2 years, the Universiade is well-known in Xiangfan City.

After the Spring Festival in p>2, Yun Jian, then a member of the Standing Committee of Xiangfan Municipal Political Consultative Conference, listened to the masses' report in a survey that the Gunhe River, a tributary of the Han River, was seriously polluted.

The Hanjiang River, also known as Hanshui River, is the largest tributary of the Yangtze River in China. It originates from Micang Mountain in the north of ningqiang county in the southwest of Shaanxi Province, flows through the south of Shaanxi, the west and the middle of Hubei in the southeast, and joins the Yangtze River in Wuhan. The total length of Hanjiang River is 1,532 kilometers, and the drainage area is 174, square kilometers. Xiangfan is crossed by the Han River. In March 2, Yun Jian and the director of Xiangfan Environmental Protection Bureau went to Gunhe for investigation. When she came to the rolling river, she was shocked. The original clean stream turned into a river of black water and smelled bad. The foul-smelling rolling river flows directly into the Han River. It is two small local paper mills that pollute the river. She said: "I never thought that there would be such dirty water flowing into the Han River. How can we live up to our children and grandchildren?" In the view of the establishment of the Games, a clear Hanjiang River has always been the pride of Xiangfan people. The water resources in Xiangfan City are relatively scarce, mainly relying on Hanshui River. For Xiangfan City, Hanshui River is Xiangfan's mother river. The quality of Hanshui River plays a great role in the city's industrial and agricultural production and residents' lives. Harming Hanshui means endangering one's own life and health. Moreover, the Hanjiang River water will flow to the north through the Middle Route Project of South-to-North Water Transfer. In order to make the drinking water in Xiangfan healthy and ensure the clean water from one river to Beijing and Tianjin, from that moment on, Yunjian decided to try its best to protect the Hanjiang River water from pollution in its lifetime. At this time, she was 57 years old. Since then, Yun Jian has devoted all his energy to environmental protection.

in April, 2, Yunjian successively investigated 24 pollution sources in four tributaries of Xiangfan section of Hanjiang River, including Nanhe River, Beihe River, Manhe River and Xiaoqing River, with a journey of more than 2, kilometers. She wrote the survey results into the Report on Water Pollution Investigation in Xiangfan Section of Hanjiang River, which was read at the Standing Committee of CPPCC. The pollution situation of Hanjiang River has begun to attract the attention of relevant government departments.

In March, 22, Yun Jian saw a news report about college students' environmental protection organization on TV, and realized that it was not enough to protect the Hanjiang River by itself and government departments. In October 22, after being affirmed by the provincial and municipal environmental protection bureaus, she contacted several CPPCC members and initiated and established the Xiangfan Environmental Protection Association-Green Hanjiang River, which is the first non-governmental environmental protection organization in Hubei Province and the only non-governmental environmental protection organization in the Hanjiang River Basin so far. She served as the executive vice president and has served as the president since 25.

After the establishment of the "Green Hanjiang River", the establishment of the Games focused on environmental education and publicity. Under the guidance and leadership of the founding of the Games, members of the "Green Hanjiang River" went to the campus, the countryside and the community to teach students according to their different places and audiences. When giving lectures to farmers, Yun Jian tries to make them easy to understand, which is very popular with farmers. When she gave a lecture to the workers, she said that the factory should take the road of sustainable development and not develop the economy at the expense of the environment; When giving lectures to teenagers, she told the children that environmental problems are around them, and told them to strive to be small guardians of environmental protection when they were young, and to shoulder the heavy responsibility of environmental protection when they grow up; When giving lectures to citizens, Yunjian told them to take environmental protection as an advanced way of life, develop modern civilized habits and pursue them in daily life, pay attention to training in words and deeds, do not buy products that are not environmentally friendly, and strive to change family consumption behavior. The establishment of the Games and the efforts of members of the "Green Hanjiang River" have awakened many people's awareness of environmental protection. Many people realize that environmental problems are around us and start to save water and use more water. Many primary school students take the initiative to hang a garbage bag next to their desks. Not only do they stop littering, but they also ask their grandparents and parents not to litter when they go home. Many people ask to join the "Green Hanjiang River". They take the establishment of the Games as a model and are proud to be environmental protection volunteers. In Xiangfan City, many cadres and citizens affectionately call Yun Jian "the elder sister of environmental protection Yun" and children call her "the grandmother of environmental protection".

In order to better carry out environmental education, Yunjian set up four places to collect environmental protection materials, carefully read and take notes, collate and compile various lecture drafts, and adopt different lectures for different audiences, which is quite popular; In order to expand the publicity content, when she went to Beijing for a meeting, she went to the "Friends of Nature" and other NGOs for help. Every time, she recited a big bag of books or pictures, made a drawing board after coming back, and conducted environmental warning education in schools, communities and rural areas throughout the city.

To protect the Han River, it is necessary to directly understand the whole picture of the mother river. At the end of April, 23, 6-year-old Yun Jian organized environmental protection volunteers to carry out the activity of "Walking on the Environmental Protection Tour of Xiangfan Section of the Han River". She selected 26 people from more than 2 applicants to form two investigation teams, and completed the 195-kilometer journey in 1 days. Check the sewage outlets along the way, collect water samples, publicize environmental protection, and the masses responded enthusiastically, which played a positive role in promoting the environmental protection of the Han River. In that year, Yun Jian led the "Green Hanjiang River" to carry out various environmental education activities for 41 times, and more than 16,8 people from 36 schools, communities and rural areas watched environmental panels and listened to environmental protection lectures. At the end of the year, the association won the title of "Advanced Unit of Xiangfan Civil Organizations" and Yunjian was rated as an advanced worker.

the implementation of the middle route scheme of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project is directly related to the cleanliness of the water transfer project. Even in Beijing, many people don't know the role of Xiangfan in the South-to-North Water Transfer Project. In order to let people in Beijing and Tianjin really know about the middle and lower reaches of the Hanshui River (Xiangfan City, Hubei Province) which has contributed to the water diversion of the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project and suffered heavy losses at the same time, in August 23, Yun Jian accompanied Ma Li, the Propaganda Minister of the Municipal Party Committee, and others to make a special trip to Beijing, giving full play to the advantages of non-governmental diplomacy, invited 15 experts from 12 organizations in Beijing and Tianjin to come to Fan, and launched the "Friends of Environmental Protection in South-to-North Water Diversion Project, Beijing, Tianjin The friends of environmental protection in the three places also jointly issued the initiative of "diverting water from the South to the North, protecting water resources and building a beautiful home", saying that "we should drink the same river and seek a development path".

In p>24, a volunteer of the "Green Hanjiang River" learned from the media that the Tangbai River was seriously polluted and wrote to the secretary of the Henan Provincial Party Committee in April. Later, when Yun Jian personally went to Tangbaihe for investigation, he learned that the villagers in Zhaiwan Village had a high incidence of cancer because of drinking polluted water.

Yun Jian wrote the investigation report of Tangbai River Pollution Investigation and Suggestions based on the data collected from the hiking survey and the observed problems, and reflected it to the provinces and cities, calling for strengthening the control of cross-regional water pollution. On April 21st, 26, when Yun Jian went to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to receive the nomination for the "Earth Award", she gave her opinion to Wang Yuguo, director of Henan Environmental Protection Bureau, on the pollution problem of Tangbaihe River.

Yun Jianli also wrote a letter directly to the State Environmental Protection Administration, and the leaders of the State Environmental Protection Administration quickly approved the letter and asked the stationmaster of the Henan reporter station of China Environmental News to investigate in Zhaiwan Village. After their investigation, they found that those small paper mills discharged sewage at night, and the reporters believed that what Yun Jian told the State Environmental Protection Administration was true. There are more than 3,4 people in Zhaiwan village, and the drinking water for the villagers is the shallow groundwater pumped by the pressure well. Because the water quality of Baihe River is inferior to five categories all the year round, the groundwater is also polluted. In the past few years, more than 1 people in this village have fallen ill and died. In September of that year, the Supervision Bureau of the State Environmental Protection Administration made a special trip to Henan Neixiang, Dengzhou, Xinye and other places for field research. Subsequently, Henan Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau and Nanyang Municipal People's Government issued documents demanding that illegal acts be seriously investigated and dealt with.

At the end of p>25, the "Safe Drinking Water Project for Villagers" was launched nationwide, and Zhaiwan Village became one of the last 1 projects after the establishment of the project. Later, she went to the provincial and municipal committees several times to introduce the situation of the village. The provincial and municipal committees decided to give financial support to the village, and then started the deep well project in Zhaiwan Village. Soon after, she was informed that the village's inclusion in the national project would be postponed until February of the following year, and the project situation would be exhibited in Beijing, and the funds would not be available until it was evaluated by the World Bank.

During the exhibition in Beijing, she brought a bottle of sewage, a handful of black mud, a well pipe that cut off a water well and 368 bright red handprints for help in Zhaiwan Village. In the end, the village became one of the last 3 projects supported by the World Bank and one of the top 1 projects, with a funding of 3, US dollars.

In p>26, Yunjian established water quality monitoring teams consisting of village cadres, villagers, teachers and students in Zhaiwan Village and Liuwan Village near the Tangbai River. She told the members of the monitoring team to call her as soon as she found the water quality problem.

under the appeal of the establishment of the Games, the drinking water problem of villagers in Zhaiwan Village has been highly valued by the provincial, municipal government and relevant departments. Yun Jian applied for $3, from "China Development Market", and the provincial and municipal governments also allocated special funds to dig deep wells for drinking water in Zhaiwan village. In June 26, the villagers in the whole village drank safe water. The surplus water can also be used for drinking by more than 6, villagers in Wang Ji and Huanggang villages. Knowledge Link Tangbai River is the largest tributary of the middle reaches of the Han River, which is formed by the confluence of Tanghe River and Baihe River. The two rivers are called Tangbai River after they meet in Shuanggou Town, and flow into the Han River in Xiangyang City, with a drainage area of 24,215 square kilometers. Since the 199s, many factories located in the upper reaches of Henan Province have discharged a large amount of sewage into the river, which has led to increasing water pollution, especially in Baihe River. At the end of 27, with the support of the International River Conservation Union, "Green Hanjiang" bought a second-hand ship, and after maintenance, it became the first private water quality monitoring ship in China-"Green Hanjiang". Now, Yun Jian often takes Xiangfan citizens by boat to inspect the situation of the Han River.

In p>28, Yun Jian led the "Green Hanjiang River" and won a free donation of 1 million yen from the Japanese government's "Benefiting the People Project" to aid the construction project of "Safe Drinking Water Project in Liuwan Village, Zhuji Town, Xiangyang District", and added local matching funds of 2.93 million yuan to build a waterworks with a daily water supply of 2, tons. Later, the construction project of "Safe Drinking Water Project in Liuwan Village, Zhuji Town, Xiangyang District" was started. After the completion of the project, the drinking water safety problem of more than 1, people in Liuwan Village, Sanhe Village, Yuanwan Village, Haowan Village, Panwan Village and Luzhuang Village in Zhuji Town can be solved.

On March 8th, 29, the organization "Green Hanjiang River" and Xiangfan Evening News launched a special activity "Caring for Water Resources and Protecting Mother River-Washing Mother River". The notice was issued on March 4th. On March 8th, more than 1,5 citizens came to participate in the activity, which made it possible for the "Green Hanjiang River" to visit American rivers.

since the founding of the Universiade seven years ago, the members who led the "Green Hanjiang River" have given more than 4 lectures and publicity, with an audience of more than 2, people and distributed more than 5, publicity materials. They have held 2 environmental education training courses and trained more than 1, teachers and environmental volunteers from more than 8 schools (units).

Today, "Green Hanjiang River" has gained a certain popularity, and more and more volunteers have joined. Yun Jian often said: "The work of protecting the mother river can only be regarded as just beginning. Although it has made a little progress, we must first thank the help of mentors and friends of NGOs at home and abroad, the understanding and support of the government, the attention of people from all walks of life, and the efforts and dedication of all volunteers. The road ahead is still very long, and it will be bumpy. We all have to work hand in hand, sincerely, and personally, step by step, constantly doing our best to protect the mother river, constantly carrying out environmental education, and constantly going deep into the mountains, to the banks of the Hanshui River, and to remote rural areas, mobilizing all the people to protect the environment and protect the mother river. "

"We are not saviors. Only when the local people take action to protect the rivers and environment around them spontaneously can there be hope for ecological environment protection."