ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The English edition of The China Environment Yearbook, Volume 5 is now
available for our readers, thanks to the hard efforts made by dozens of
dedicated volunteers and scholars. Our deepest gratitude and admira-
tion are reserved for the article contributors—environmental experts,
scholars, lawyers, NGO activists, and journalists—who, at the invi-
tation of Friends of Nature, put together yet another monumental
work on current environmental issues in China in the Green Book of
Environment (2010). This was originally published in Chinese by the
Social Sciences Academic Press as one of the Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences Yearbook series.
Our sincere thanks go to the Delta Environmental & Educational
Foundation which has provided financial support for The Environmental
Yearbook project for five successive years.
Our appreciation is also owed to a group of volunteers who pro-
vided informational support used in the text: Chen Yangwen, Chen
Yixiang, Chen Qinqin, Hou Liwen, Li Nan, Li Yanling, Liu Xiaoyu,
Pan Linling, Lu Xicheng, Su Donglin, Yang Fangyi, Tan Li, Tan
Hua, Zhao Zhangyuan, Yanglei, Yang Shihe, Jin Hui, Huo Weiya,
Ding Ning, Lai Weijie, Yi Shui, Carlos, Liu Jia, Su Yutong, Huang
Shan, Peng Yan, Yi Yimin, Yu Xiaogang, Wang Yongchen, Wang
Jin, Wang Jingjing, Ma Jun, Alex Wang, Zhang Yulei, Li Xiang, and
Fan Xiao. They gave unreserved support to this project as they trust
Friends of Nature and share with it the same goal of protecting the
environment.
The task of translation could not have been accomplished without
the team work of volunteers, mainly graduate students from the School
of English and International Studies at Beijing Foreign Studies Univer-
sity (BFSU). The organizational work was shared by Wang Lili, Zhai
Zheng, and Shen Changying, all three whom are teachers at BFSU.
The following volunteers completed the draft translation of the various
chapters of the Green Book, in order of the chapters translated: Zhou
Yong, Zhou Yan, Wang Binghui, Song Wenjing, Wang Wanying, Li
Xiang, Mu Xueru, Lu Bing, Yi Ran, Zhang Tingting, Zhang Xiao-
ning, Zhang Xin, Zhang Jiajing, Shen Gaochao, Cheng Xiuxue, Zhang
Wenwen, Zheng Xuan, Fang Fang, He Junling, Yang Yang, Wan