Chinese environmental heroes
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- Yi Jiefang has devoted her life to fulfilling her late son's last wish -- planting trees across China's deserts to give them a splash of green.
- Yi Jiefang: Making the deserts bloom
- 61-year-old Huo Daishan has shown what great things can be done by a single, ordinary citizen in protecting the Huaihe River and its surrounding people.
- Huo keeps his eye on the Huaihe River
- Ma Jun works with corporations to clean up their practices through digital databases and maps that show which factories violate environmental regulations across China.
- Ma Jun takes on pollution
Editor's note: This special feature follows several "heroes" of environmental protection in China. Their stories show that ordinary people can make a significant contribution toward improving and protecting our natural environment.
- Straw 'checkerboard' stops desert encroachment
Sixty-year-old Wang Youde still remembers the hard days when his family suffered the encroachment of the Maowusu Desert in the 1970s.
- Million-dollar sandman
Born and raised in Yulin on the edges of the Maowusu Desert in northwest China's Shaanxi province, Shi Guangyin reveals that his family moved nine times to avoid the storms.
- Huo Daishan keeps his eye on the Huaihe River
61-year-old Huo Daishan has shown what great things can be done by a single, ordinary citizen in protecting the Huaihe River and its surrounding people.
- Ma Jun takes on pollution
Ma Jun works with corporations to clean up their practices through digital databases and maps that show which factories violate environmental regulations across China.
- Yi Jiefang: Making the deserts bloom
Yi Jiefang has devoted her life to fulfilling her late son's last wish -- planting trees across China's deserts to give them a splash of green.
