Protect the environment and benefit mankind

--The journey of environmental protection of Tian Guirong, China’s non-governmental environmental protection ambassador

As a rural woman from Xinxiang County, Henan Province, Tian Guirong has spent many years He worked hard and took root in the front line of environmental protection. He wrote a glorious chapter in China's environmental protection cause with amazing perseverance and persistent belief. She is an internationally renowned environmental protection volunteer. She is the only winner in Asia to win both the Ford International Environmental Protection Award and the American Gretman Award. She has been honored by Qu Geping, Chairman of the Environment and Resource Protection Committee of the National People's Congress, and Xie Zhenhua, Director of the State Environmental Protection Administration. Interviewed by other leaders, he was hailed as China's "private environmental protection ambassador" by the United Nations Environment Program.

Tian Guirong is engaged in environmental protection work as follows:

1. Recycling 65 tons of used batteries at her own expense of more than 90,000 yuan

In 1998, when she learned that used batteries were harmful to When there is a serious danger to human beings, we resolutely decide to recycle used batteries at our own expense. She made 3,000 pennants with green banners and wrote down the addresses and phone numbers for recycling used batteries. She also made 600 transparent used battery recycling boxes and 50,000 environmental advocacy letters, which were distributed to schools in the city. He also published an initiative titled "Stop Ruining the Earth" in his own name in Xinxiang Daily. From then on, Tian Guirong relied on the simple emotions of an environmental protection volunteer and his unprecedented concern for environmental protection, walking around the streets to recycle used batteries at a price of 2 cents a year. She also organized a large number of environmental protection publicity activities, using Earth Day, Environment Day, and holidays to carry out environmental protection publicity, and through television and newspapers, more people were aware of the dangers of used batteries. Over the past five years, she has personally invested more than 90,000 yuan to recycle 65 tons of used batteries, saving nearly 7 million square meters of land from pollution by used batteries.

2. Actively carry out various environmental protection publicity practices and environmental education activities

Tian Guirong used holidays to organize large-scale environmental protection publicity activities at his own expense throughout the province. Only in Zhengzhou and Xinxiang Organized 38 large-scale activities such as "Green Olympic Bid with Thousands of Signatures" and "Web of Life Loves Environmental Protection", with 260,000 participants. At the same time, she also volunteers to teach environmental protection knowledge to college students. In the past few years, Tian Guirong has visited more than 110 schools in China to promote environmental protection knowledge to more than 300,000 students and explain the dangers of used batteries, reaching a direct audience of more than 3.6 million people. During winter and summer vacations, Tian Guirong organizes environmental volunteers at his own expense to investigate environmental issues such as white pollution, river pollution, and wetland protection. In order to protect the Mother River, Tian Guirong led more than 30 college students to brave the sweltering heat many times and walk 150 kilometers along the Wei River, People's Victory Canal, Communist Canal, Qin River and Yellow River to inspect sewage outlets to conduct water source pollution, water quality analysis, and sewage discharge The company conducted a face-to-face fight against illegal sewage discharges and submitted 24 inspection reports to superior environmental protection departments, providing very important information to further protect the mother river and purify water sources.

3. Create a professional environmental protection website "Tian Guirong Environmental Protection Network" (http://www.greentian.org/)

Established the first environmental protection mass group in the province - Xinxiang Municipal Environmental Protection Volunteers Association.

In carrying out environmental protection publicity and education, Tian Guirong spent more than 30,000 yuan at his own expense to establish the province’s first environmental protection mass group, the Xinxiang Environmental Protection Volunteers Association, and it was also the first in the country initiated by farmers. Environmental Volunteers Association. At present, it has recruited more than 10,000 environmental protection volunteers, forming a scientific, professional and structured environmental protection network throughout the province, laying a more solid foundation for the environmental protection cause in the Central Plains. In order to attract more environmental protection volunteers and expand the scope, she used modern publicity tools and personally invested more than 20,000 yuan in September 2001 to create China's first professional environmental protection website hosted by individual farmers - Tian Guirong Environmental Protection Network (http://www.tianguirong.com). ://www.greentian.org/), to promote the latest and fastest environmental protection news to people. So far, 220,000 people have logged into the website, and more than 3,000 emails have been sent to inquire about environmental protection issues. Tian Guirong patiently responded to the questions mentioned in the emails.

Tian Guirong’s progressive deeds of enthusiastic environmental protection have had strong repercussions in several countries across the country. More than 300 news media at home and abroad, including Xinhua News Agency, CCTV, People’s Daily, and China Environment News, have reported on Tian Guirong’s enthusiastic environmental protection deeds. There have been many reports, and CCTV alone has broadcast her deeds in seven columns including "Focus Interview", "Oriental Time and Space" and "Xinwen Lianbo". Foreign newspapers such as the New York Times and Los Angeles Times also traveled thousands of miles to China to interview this legendary Chinese rural woman.

After Tian Guirong’s environmental protection deeds were disclosed by the news media, it set off an upsurge in non-governmental environmental protection across the country. Environmental protection volunteers from all over the country competed to learn from each other, and established environmental organizations one after another to carry out environmental protection activities, which greatly promoted non-governmental environmental protection in China. The organization thrives. But Tian Guirong paid an unimaginable price for a series of environmental activities such as recycling 65 tons of used batteries and building a website, setting up an association, and protecting the mother river. Her body was so tired that she suffered from severe arthritis, neurological headaches, and injuries. As a result, all the 250,000 yuan that her family had worked hard to save for decades was invested in environmental protection, but she was not intimidated by the difficulties. She said: "Life continues, and environmental protection does not stop! As long as I have one breath, I will I must pursue environmental protection to the end! I just want to take a road of environmental protection that no one has ever walked before! "Although the road ahead is long and arduous, Tian Guirong, this Chinese rural woman's determination to protect the environment is still so persistent and determined. She will continue to go on as always...

Haha, there are a lot more deeds!