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New advisors on the nation's political horizon
(China Daily) Updated: 2008-02-29 09:00 Among the other high-ranking Olympic officials on the list are Chinese Olympic Committee's Anti-doping Commission director Shi Kangcheng, and president of Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong Timothy Fok Tsun-ting. Marketing of the Olympics is an important part of the sport gala, and has rightly been given its place in the CPPCC. People from this field include Lenovo Group founder Liu Chuanzhi and China Mobile CEO Wang Jianzhou. Both the companies are partners of the Games. The environment and the fight to protect it deserve the highest attention because of a threat called global warming. Experts from this special group in the CPPCC include three State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) officials - deputy director Wu Xiaoqing, former deputy director Wang Yuqing and director of the information office of SEPA's China National Environmental Monitoring Center Wen Xiangcai. Officials from environmental bureaus of Hunan and Guizhou provinces are also on the list. Zhai Liya's fight against pollution of farmland in Guizhou for the past 28 years makes her a natural choice for the job. In fact, the 55-year-old woman is widely acknowledged as an expert on preventing mercury damage to the soil. The list also includes other environmentalists and ecologists fighting climate change. Yao Tandong, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is well known across the world for his study on glaciers. For three decades, he has been studying the changes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the source of some of the most important rivers in the world, including the Yangtze, Yellow, Ganges, Indus, Mekong and the Yarlung Tsangpo. His research shows the impact of global warming on the glaciers, as well as on the ecology of the plateau. Entertainers and sportspersons, too, will be in the spotlight. Film director Feng Xiaogang, China Central Television Station (CCTV) anchorpersons Cui Yongyuan, Zhu Jun and Hai Xia, Tibetan singer Han Hong, tennis player Yan Zi and hurdler Liu Xiang are some of the other new names on the list. Gong Li has not been included this year, but director Zhang Yimou is still a CPPCC National Committee member. Zhang will design the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, too. |
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