Detailed stories and classic sentences of Huo Daishan, the annual figure of Green China.

Huo Daishan, male, 52 years old, president of Huaihe River Guardian (Environmental NGO).

He used to be a photojournalist, and he became a famous "guardian of Huaihe River" in China because he uncovered the big lie about the Huaihe River's pollution control standards. The British BBC interviewed him. He resigned from public office and walked alone through more than 20 counties and cities along the Huaihe River, traveling more than 4,000 kilometers from the source to the end of the Huaihe River. He shot more than15,000 works on water pollution in Huaihe River Basin at his own expense.

Reprinted by many national media, shocking the whole country; Influenced by him, his two sons also became his unpaid "civil environmentalists" after graduating from college. He 10 sees a river and is called "the guardian of Huaihe River".

10 For more than 0 years, Huo Daishan has paid close attention to the water pollution problem of the Huaihe River with a strong sense of participation and a high sense of social responsibility, and has been running for speeding up the water pollution control of the Huaihe River and making a voice for public demands. He was the first to expose to the whole country the truth of the "dream of pollution control for ten years" and the ecological disaster brought to farmers by water pollution in Huaihe River. In June, 2003, the first non-governmental environmental protection organization in the Huaihe River Basin-"Huaihe Guardian" was established. Under his inspiration, 1000 environmental protection volunteers joined in. Establish the "Huaihe System Environmental Science Research Center", start the implementation of the "Hope Project to Save the Huaihe River", and carry the banner of green environmental protection in the Huaihe River Basin with the spirit of backbone.

10 For many years, he spent more than 200,000 yuan of family savings and invested in various environmental protection activities for water pollution control in Huaihe River. Because I quit my job and have no fixed income, I now live on odd jobs. Sometimes, during the inspection, people were beaten, their cameras were smashed and some people made anonymous threatening phone calls. But he did not compromise, claiming that "as long as the Huaihe River is unclear, I will not stop calling. This is not my own business, there are tens of millions of people behind me. "

Since 2003, he has selected 120 ecological pictures of Huaihe River and made them into 105 exhibition boards. With the theme of "The Call of Huaihe Home", it has been exhibited in famous universities and cities along the Huaihe River for more than 70 times. At the same time, the speech "Huaihe River-Life of 200 million people" was held, with an audience of more than 6.5438+0 million, which effectively promoted the "Huaihe River environmental protection fever". The three major tasks of the Hope Project to Save the Huaihe River (clean drinking water assistance, medical and health assistance, long-term follow-up investigation and supervision of water pollution in the Huaihe River and its treatment) have achieved remarkable results. 15 polluting enterprises were closed, and cancer villages obtained some aid funds and projects, installed water filters for every household in cancer villages, distributed anticancer drugs, and helped more than 200 cancer patients. According to his reflection, the state has decided to allocate 40 million yuan each year to dig deep wells in polluted areas, and the first batch of well drilling funds have been put in place, and tens of thousands of farmers have drunk clean water.

Huo Daishan 1953 Director, Huaihe River Eco-environmental Science Research Center.

Main deeds:

The rapid economic development at the end of last century once made Huaihe River one of the most polluted rivers in China. Huo Daishan resolutely resigned from public office to focus on environmental protection in Huaihe River.

He founded the first non-governmental environmental protection organization in the Huaihe River basin-Huaihe Guardian, and volunteered to publicize environmental protection knowledge to farmers on both sides of the Huaihe River. He held photo exhibitions and lectures all over the country, calling on the whole society to care about the management of Huaihe River. He established the Huaihe River Eco-environmental Science Research Center to monitor the water quality of Huaihe River for many years. In the past 30 years, he has walked along the Huaihe River countless times and obtained a lot of first-hand data, which provided scientific decision-making basis for the state to govern the Huaihe River. Thanks to his efforts, the state has set up monitoring stations in villages along the Huaihe River and established an early warning mechanism for civil water pollution disasters. Under his supervision, a number of enterprises with high energy consumption, high pollution and illegal discharge were shut down and rectified by the government. Under his management, the government allocated special funds to dig deep wells and install water filters for villages in polluted areas. ...

He defended the Huaihe River with his life, and he guarded his home with his life.

Huo Daishan used to be a journalist, working in Zhoukou Daily, specializing in photography. In fact, it is quite accidental that he became attached to environmental protection. 1in mid-July, 994, when he aimed the camera at the Sha Ying River, the largest tributary of the Huaihe River, the layers of fish carcasses made him "shake". "I was going to shoot the scenery, but the scenery is gone, so I have to shoot the pollution." Since then, his lens has been pointing to Sha Ying and Huaihe River.

1998, Huo Daishan resigned from the newspaper, specializing in environmental protection. After his resignation, he walked alone through more than 20 counties and cities along the Huaihe River, with a journey of more than 4,000 kilometers from the source to the end of the Huaihe River. At his own expense, he shot more than 5000 water pollution works in Huaihe River Basin/KLOC-0. The purpose is to expose pollution through images, awaken people and defend their homes.

Since 2003, he has selected 120 ecological pictures of Huaihe River and made them into 105 exhibition boards. With the theme of "The Call of Huaihe Home", it has been exhibited in famous universities and cities along the Huaihe River for more than 70 times. At the same time, a speech on "Huaihe River-Life of 200 million people" was held, with an audience of more than 6,543,800+million, which effectively promoted the "Huaihe River Environmental Protection Fever". Huodaishan Hope Project has achieved remarkable results in three major tasks (clean drinking water rescue, medical and health rescue, long-term follow-up investigation and supervision of Huaihe River water pollution and its treatment).

Behind the gradual improvement of environmental protection in Huodai Mountain is the increasing poverty of families. For more than ten years, he spent more than 200,000 yuan of family savings on various environmental protection activities to control water pollution in the Huaihe River. Because there is no fixed income after resigning, for a long time, this environmental fighter actually made a living by doing odd jobs. In addition, during the inspection, he was beaten many times, his camera was smashed, and he even received an anonymous threatening phone call, but he did not compromise: "As long as the Huaihe River is unclear, I will not stop calling. This is not my business alone, there are tens of millions of people behind. "

In 2005, the state drilled 46 deep water wells for shenqiu county, the depth of which was between150m and 400m. As a result,1300,000 people drank clean water.

The State Environmental Protection Administration even called the guards of the Huaihe River "a pair of eyes placed by the State Administration on the Huaihe River".

Huo Daishan: From Journalist to Green China Person of the Year

At the end of 2007, Huo Daishan, a native of Henan Province, won the individual award of "2007 Green China Person of the Year". Standing on the rostrum with him were professors from the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering of Tsinghua University, CCTV news reporter Chai Jing, famous directors Zhang Yimou and Feng. Huo Daishan is the only winner among grassroots non-governmental environmental protection organizations.

This activity is jointly sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Environment and Resources Committee of the National People's Congress, the Population, Resources and Environment Committee of the China People's Political Consultative Conference, the Ministry of Culture, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the State Environmental Protection Administration. This award is also the first environmental figure award awarded by the government in China.

At the award ceremony, CCTV host Bai read out the award speech: "10 years ago, Huodaishan promoted the governance of the Huaihe River with the strength of an ordinary citizen, which attracted worldwide attention. His forward-looking appeal for environment and health has also been verified by reality. His participation proves that civil power can be an important supplement to government supervision. "

Forced environmental volunteers

Huo Daishan is from shenqiu county, Zhoukou. His home is on the Liushaying River, the largest tributary of Huaihe River. He is the founder of the non-governmental environmental protection organization "Defender of Huaihe River". On October 30th, 65438/KLOC-0, Huo Daishan, who was as busy as a bee, sat in front of a reporter and expounded the ups and downs.

Affinity and environmental protection in 1997, "The water pollution problem of Huaihe River has attracted national attention before 1997. At that time, the State Environmental Protection Administration put forward the goal of 1997 to completely eradicate the Huaihe River. When 1997 comes, I really want to know if the Huaihe River has become clear. " Huo Daishan said.

Huo Daishan said that his family used to be by the river, and he often took his children to the river to take a bath in summer. At about 1990 or earlier, Shaying River began to get dark and smelly, and it was impossible to take a bath in the river gradually. After that, dead fish and dead shrimp began to drift by the river. In Zhoukou dialect, this is "turning over the pond". "I have been paying attention to this issue." Huo Daishan said.

The standard time of Huaihe River 1997 has passed, but the Huaihe River in Huo Daishan's eyes is black water, dead fish and stinking. At this time, something happened, which deeply stimulated Huo Daishan: Ni, then the leader of a grassroots government in shenqiu county, was Huo Daishan's childhood partner. Ni is a very bloody person, running around for water pollution. One day, angry people came to him with polluted Huaihe River water. Ni said that he knew about it and reported it to his superiors, but the people refused to admit it and had to let him taste the polluted water himself. Ni is obviously in a hurry. She drank the polluted water in public, and everyone at the scene froze.

Later, Ni died of cancer, which caused a lot of trouble in Huo Daishan for a long time. It was not until he decided to quit his job that he had nightmares at night.

At this point, Huo Daishan choked up, perhaps because he remembered his childhood partner. Ni's predecessor also died of esophageal cancer. For a long time, no one dared to take this position.

Quit your job and do an investigation.

Huo Daishan is a photojournalist, and it is his instinct to record history with a lens.

Today, Huodai Mountain bears the aura of "Defender of Huaihe River". Many media claimed that he was the first person to govern Huaihe River, but Huo Daishan made it clear that he was not the first person, and he was regarded as the "third person". According to his memory, the first one was Pang Yixin, a native of Shenqiu and an old party member. After discovering the pollution problem of Huaihe River, he made speeches everywhere and appealed to relevant departments. Now he's dead. Huo Daishan once interviewed him and was deeply influenced by him.

The second group concerned about the pollution of Huaihe River is a group of local veteran cadres, most of whom work in local people's congresses and political consultative conferences, and also run for the water pollution problem of Huaihe River in many ways. So Huo Daishan said that he was a "third person".

In Huo Daishan's view, the problem at that time was that the Huaihe River was seriously polluted, but the higher authorities did not know the truth, and there was a big gap between the situation reported by the grassroots government and the environmental protection department and the facts. "I want to go out of a private channel to transmit information and report the real situation to the government." Huo Daishan said.

1In March, 998, Huodaishan began a photographic investigation of the entire Huaihe River Basin. Before leaving his post, he resigned as a journalist. Many people didn't understand this at that time, but he made up his mind. By riding, hiking and cycling, he completed the investigation report on water pollution in Huaihe River Basin. During the inspection, he met many unexpected new problems. For example, when the local people reflected the local problems of dirty water, smelly water and polluted water, they almost invariably mentioned the difficulty of drinking water every day. A typical example is that when young people went out to work and go to school, their health was normal, but they began to have diarrhea after coming home every New Year or holiday.

According to the survey in Huodaishan, many enterprises directly discharge pollutants, and some villagers get sick due to water pollution. Huo Daishan will never forget the desperate eyes of these patients.

The days of environmentally friendly houses

Huo Daishan, who is only in his early fifties, has quietly changed color because of the wind and frost.

"Is there family support for environmental protection for so many years?" The reporter asked. "No," Huo Daishan hesitated, then added, "but on the whole, it is supported." . "There are always several contradictions and storms in a year, because I have hollowed out my family's money on environmental protection, and I have received many anonymous threatening calls in previous years. Later, I also experienced that the camera was smashed and people were beaten. At this time, my wife will give some warnings: I can't go on, there is no money at home, and people outside can't listen to gossip. " Huo Daishan said.

Once a film festival was held, Huo Daishan and his family had just quarreled the night before, and the next morning they insisted on dragging things out alone. When he climbed to the telephone pole to tie the wire, he suddenly felt as if someone was under his feet. Looking down, it turned out that his wife and son didn't know when they came to the scene. Everyone didn't speak, just worked silently.

That film festival impressed Huo Daishan: it was getting dark in the afternoon and it started to rain lightly. When he was ready to withdraw the exhibition, some people who watched the exhibition wouldn't let him withdraw: "We are watching, what are you withdrawing?" Some people go home and call their children to watch the film festival.

This made Huo Daishan very moved, and he felt that it was recognition of his efforts. Huo Daishan said, I thought it would be completed in two or three years. I didn't expect that the more I learned, the more complicated it was, and it took me more than ten years.

Huo Daishan has two sons. One works in Dongguan, doing art design, and the other does graphic design in Zhengzhou. They both did a good job. However, due to the shortage of manpower, Huo Daishan finally brought both children back to him and became volunteers. The boss is 29 years old and not married. At this point, his voice began to fall. In a small county, there are not many people who are not married at the age of 29.

In Huo Daishan's view, it is very common for non-governmental organizations in China to follow in his father's footsteps or "environmental family photos". Because family members, even if they don't want to or don't agree, have to follow. "Because I am so tired, I need too many people." At this time, Huo Daishan's words seemed a little tired. "The child understands very well and silently bears the pressure with me. There is nothing to be done about the dispute between brothers and fathers. "

Put it in the eyes of Huaihe River.

At present, the main project of Huodaishan is called "Hope Project for Saving Huaihe River". Huo summed it up as: say two words: tell the truth to the government and be fair to the people; Three major tasks: long-term monitoring of the source of water pollution in Huaihe River, long-term follow-up supervision of sewage outlets, clean drinking water assistance in heavily polluted areas and medical and health assistance; Four demands: verification, help, change and solution.

Huo Daishan believes: "How the environment changes, we can't actually change it ourselves." The State Environmental Protection Administration once put forward the concept of "deep participation", that is, citizens' right to know and participate to change the trend of environmental deterioration. His understanding of the role of non-governmental organizations is to use their long-term advantages in the front line to find problems in time and then reflect them to the state.

By mobilizing the surrounding people and volunteers, Huodaishan can basically achieve all-weather monitoring. According to the degree of the plot, various means such as greeting the enterprise and reporting to the environmental protection department were adopted respectively. Huo Daishan personally stood at the sewage disposal site and telephoned the "environmental protection through train" of the State Environmental Protection Administration to report the situation. The State Environmental Protection Administration called Huodaishan their "eyes of Huaihe River".

Since 2004, Huodaishan's work scope has expanded from clean drinking water to medical and health assistance. In more than three years, * * * raised more than 1 10,000 yuan of drugs and helped more than 200 patients. In 2006, this scope was extended to children. They once saved a girl named Wang Huimei. She is a patient with congenital heart disease. After the rescue, she had an operation in Shanghai, which was very successful. Now I study normally and got a scholarship last year. Her story later appeared in CCTV news investigation, and this rescue changed her life's fate. In 2007, they helped 0/7 children in need in Huodaishan/KLOC, and the scope has begun to expand. If government departments can intervene in the future, the scope of assistance may increase tenfold.

I am an actor.

"I am not a radical environmentalist, but an actor. I focus on environmental changes and strive to make everything impossible. " This is Huo Daishan's evaluation of himself.

The change in lotus gourmet powder is regarded by Huo Daishan as a successful example: lotus gourmet powder is criticized for its pollution problems. But now, lotus gourmet powder has established the development idea of circular economy and extracted useful things such as compound fertilizer from sewage, which has really benefited. "At most, there were 87 deep wells in lotus gourmet powder that took water at the same time, and now there are only 7 left; In the past, they discharged 1.2 million tons of wastewater every day, and now it is only 1.2 million tons, which will eventually achieve zero emissions. " Huo Daishan said.

"Conduct legal environmental protection activities within the framework permitted by law. I think I am gentle, but some people still think I am a fighter. " Huo Daishan said.

Huo Daishan said that their next goal is to expand the "Lotus Model", that is, public supervision and information disclosure. They have now established the Huaihe River ecological monitoring and protection station from Luohe to Fuyang, Anhui. Once something goes wrong, they will receive the news within a few minutes. At present, there are more than 1000 volunteers of "Defenders of Huaihe River", covering farmers, sociologists and other classes. This growing army of environmental protection makes Huo Daishan feel very gratified.

Huo Daishan hopes that the "Lotus Model" can be expanded now until it finally becomes the "Shaying River Model". If Shaying River can finally become clear, this method can be replicated in the whole Huaihe River basin in the future and become the "Huaihe Model", which should be his ultimate ideal.

Huo Daishan said that no matter what happens in the future, they will not give up the supervision and monitoring of the Huaihe River sewage outlet. What they want to do next is clean drinking water projects and medical and health assistance.

However, after drilling deep water wells, Huo Daishan was still worried: "There are deep water wells everywhere, and the ground has been ground into honeycomb coal. What we are eating now is actually CAMBRIAN and Cretaceous water. Our generation has finished eating, what will future generations eat? Overexploitation will also lead to land subsidence and geological fracture problems ... "

I used to wear a gas mask to take pictures.

Collect coastal soil

□ Reporter Tao Huang Peng Yuyuan Twain

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