What about Dan Zhiqiang, editor-in-chief of chinese national geography?

Dan Zhiqiang, executive editor of China National Geographic magazine.

Graduated from Jilin University, worked in the Economic Department of People's Daily (Overseas Edition) from 65438 to 0985. Later, he came to chinese national geography magazine as an editor. He is currently a researcher at the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, deputy director of the Publishing Committee of the Chinese Geographical Society, deputy director of the Science Communication and Science Education Committee of the Dialectics of Nature Research Society of China Academy of Social Sciences, and a distinguished researcher at the Science Communication Center of Peking University.

Mr Dan Zhiqiang loves thinking, has novel ideas, likes books and travels in Wan Li. As the executive editor of chinese national geography magazine, I am familiar with the editing business, and I am good at planning and organizing the editing of albums and reports that are deeply loved by readers. Albums such as "Why God made Sichuan" and "Beauty Contest China" constantly refresh the miracle of magazine publishing. He once led a team to Hoh Xil, Rongbu Glacier on Mount Everest, Mashan in Xixia State, Taklimakan Desert, Kunlun Mountain, Qilian Mountain, Hengduan Mountain, Qinling Mountain, the source of the Yangtze River, the bend of the Yarlung Zangbo River and other places. He experienced many hardships and recorded many little-known places.

Dan Zhiqiang had a complicated experience and did a lot of work. The major of the university is Chinese language and literature, but unlike other liberal arts students, Dan Zhiqiang has a strong interest in science and mathematics. Dan Zhiqiang's work is related to "geography", because geography is the closest to humanity.

Since Dan Zhiqiang became the editor-in-chief, the magazine's albums, such as Draw a Circle for the Most Beautiful Place in China, Why God Made Sichuan, Travel around the World and Ask Rivers, Shangri-La and the List of the Most Beautiful Places in China, have not only created a miracle of distribution, but also become classic collections of many people.

Being able to travel all over the country is exactly what many people envy Dan Zhiqiang. But he smiled and said that "going" was not his original purpose. He used to be an editor behind closed doors until an accidental opportunity in 2003, when he was invited to visit Sichuan. Walking around, I found that ordinary people's impression of Sichuan is still limited to the platitudes of land of abundance, Chengdu Plain, large population and rich products. At this time, his eyes stayed in western Sichuan, Ganzi, Aba, Liangshan, vast land and numerous snow-capped mountains, especially the snow-capped mountains and snow-capped peaks in Sichuan, Siguniang Mountain, Gongga Mountain and Hailuogou. , solemn and sacred, different from the famous mountains and rivers in China's traditional aesthetics.

"When you look at a mountain, you should look at a very high mountain." This is a famous viewpoint put forward by Dan Zhiqiang in his album Why God Created Sichuan. He said that China people have been singing about the scenery of the East for thousands of years, but neglected the magnificent rivers and mountains in the West. China people's aesthetics should have a revolution in Dan Zhiqiang, where they worked before Mount Everest, and enter the era of appreciating glaciers. His theory received enthusiastic response from many people. At that time, a group of scholars and literati in Sichuan were also impressed by his views as an outsider.

Since then, chinese national geography has gradually matured, and Dan Zhiqiang has begun to go more. The more he walked, the more he felt that citizens of a country should have a basic understanding of the mountains and rivers of their motherland. On the Sichuan-Tibet line, he met a group of young people, all white-collar workers in big cities. They quit their jobs and walked the Sichuan-Tibet line, but they got nothing and didn't know there were magnificent scenery around them. This strengthened his idea of helping people master geographical knowledge, which he said would enrich their lives.

As a walker, Dan Zhiqiang likes walking on the road very much. Just as the Renaissance must return to the source of Greece, if he wants to give a geographical report, he will definitely go there in person, and there will be unexpected surprises and discoveries every time.

He said that the photos of photographers in Dan Zhiqiang are always unreliable. You only trust your own eyes. He thought China was "nothing to go to", but later he found himself wrong. In Shangri-La, he saw the coexistence of polygamy and modern marriage system. In a village, every family has four brothers and a wife. On Mount Qomolangma, which is usually considered dangerous by ordinary people, he saw the beautiful ice tower forest. Walking in it, the stones under his feet seemed to have been washed and shone blue in the sun.

Often walking in the western region, the investigation life in Dan Zhiqiang is not as easy as people think, but full of hardships and dangers. Near Dunhuang, they strayed into an abandoned national road in search of large-scale Ya Dan landforms. The road is full of quicksand, and the car soon runs out of gas ... The light they see in near despair makes them happy. On Mount Everest, the ice tower forest that no one has ever entered is beautiful and full of traps, and there are ice cracks and lakes everywhere. Even the local tour guide tried to persuade Dan Zhiqiang not to go down, but Dan Zhiqiang "went his own way". He said with a smile that the most beautiful scenery is often in the most dangerous places.

Dan Zhiqiang, who has been to many places, regrets that there are still many places to go and many books to read. After seeing so many scenery, he always insisted on writing his own article before the album. He said that only by writing in person can we pay attention to and study nature.

Dan Zhiqiang is the editor-in-chief of the magazine. He likes writing, reading and quoting classics. For example, in order to write about the Three Gorges, he will find that among the 300 Tang poems, 54 are about the Yangtze River, and 12 is about the Three Gorges. He compared the quadrangle architecture in China that likes to hide with the western castle architecture that likes to show off and seize the commanding heights, and explained the difference between Guanzhong basin culture and Athens mountain culture with geographical knowledge ... In addition, he drew many controversial "deviant" conclusions, such as thinking that afforestation is a myth and questioning any large-scale afforestation project, so he used the "top community" theory of American ecologist Quentin Crommen. When the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was opened, he claimed that another Great Wall was born, which made him criticized by many netizens. His writing shows the nature and composure of outdoor people, and at the same time, it can also make us realize the passion and impulse of this scholar to rectify the world. He is always eager to claim a proper "birthright" for the unknown mountains, lakes, plateaus and wetlands in the city.

He ran back and forth between the extremes of nature and civilization. At one extreme, he and his colleague He He, my brother, got lost in the glacier and desert, and were excited for a friend to take nude photos after boarding the glacier. At the other extreme, as a unit person, he should promote the process of magazines in accordance with the commercial law every month, coordinate the timely publication of magazines every month, wear a suit and tie in addition to writing the preface, and hold readers' meetings or make speeches from time to time. ...

Obviously, Dan Zhiqiang has adapted to the life of shuttling between two worlds. Once a month, he swings like a clock, and every time, he returns to his position on time. He told reporters that in order to catch up with the manuscript, he had climbed an iceberg at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, or a desert Gobi under the scorching sun. Just after drinking noodle soup, he pressed his hat, dressed in assault suit, put on headphones and knocked out his experience on the keyboard; As you can imagine, what he has knocked out is nothing more than what he has been doing and wants to continue to do-shaping the image of China.