- Pan Yue
Pan Yue (
Simplified Chinese 潘岳, born1960 ) was born inJiangsu province,People's Republic of China , the son of a military engineer.Biography
He is the number one deputy director (第一副局长) of the Chinese
State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA, Simplified Chinese: 国家环境保护总局), a post he was elected to in 2003. In March 2008 SEPA's name was changed to the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Pan's title became Vice Minister.Between 1994 and 2003 he moved through a series of deputy directorships at the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission; the State Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision; the Economic Restructuring Office of the State Council.
He has a background in journalism, having started his career in 1982 on the China Environment Journal, where he worked until 1986. he rose to become the deputy chief editor of
China Youth Daily , between 1989-93 before becoming director of CYLC, Central Committee, China Youth Research Center. [ [http://chinavitae.com/biography/2227 China Vitae : Biography of Pan Yue ] ]BusinessWeek online has described him as 'a courageous voice for a greener China'. "Pan has taken on some of China's biggest industries over their pollution records and forced them to clean up", said BusinessWeek in a July, 2005, interview. [ [http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_28/b3942403.htm A Courageous Voice For A Greener China ] ]
Pan believes the fundamental cause of the global environmental crisis is the capitalist system. "The environmental crisis has become a new means of transferring the economic crisis," he said. [ [http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/493--The-rich-consume-and-the-poor-suffer-the-pollution- “The rich consume and the poor suffer the pollution” ] ]
He was named by British left-of-centre weekly politics magazine
New Statesman as its Person of the Year 2007. [ [http://www.newstatesman.com/200612180028 New Statesman - Person of the year: The man making China green ] ] . It labelled Pan as "...a rare, if not lone, public voice within the Chinese government warning that disaster threatens unless development is checked and quoted him as saying "This miracle will end soon because the environment can no longer keep pace."Veteran China journalist and current editor of www.
chinadialogue .netIsabel Hilton has characterised the massive project Pan has taken on in championing a green China: "He is trying to move a mountain rather than climb it."References
External links
* [http://chinavitae.com/biography/2227] Biography
* [http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/493--The-rich-consume-and-the-poor-suffer-the-pollution-] 'The rich consume and the poor suffer the pollution' - interview
* [http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_28/b3942403.htm] BusinessWeek online interview
* [http://www.newstatesman.com/200612180028] New Statesman Person of the Year 2007
* [http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,345694,00.html] Spiegel online interview "The Chinese Miracle Will End Soon"
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