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Liang Congjie obituary
Liang Congjie, who has died aged 78, was widely recognised inside and outside China as the founder of the country's environmental movement. In 1994, with three colleagues, he set up Friends of Nature, China's first authentic environmental non-government organisation. Its work continues to this day, training local activists in ways which, while having impact, avoid showdowns with the government. Liang had become increasingly aware of the costs China's environment was starting to pay for the industrialisation that followed the economic reforms from 1978 onwards, and stated later that the work of Greenpeace had been an inspiration, even though he felt its advocacy was too aggressive to the political culture in China.
China's problems throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s led to Liang becoming a credible spokesperson for an increasingly large constituency of concerned rural and urban citizens, who were to become the main victims of problems ranging from degraded water quality to airborne diseases. By 2005, according to the World Bank, China had 16 of the wor
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Liang Congjie
Chinese historian and activist
Liang Congjie (Chinese: 梁从诫; 4 August 1932 – 28 October 2010) was a Chinese historian best known for his work as an environmental activist who established the Friends of Nature in 1994 as the first environmental non-governmental organization to be officially recognized by the government of the People's Republic of China.[1]
Liang's father, architect Liang Sicheng, had led attempts to prevent the destruction of the walls surrounding Beijing with the land to be used for the construction of highways. His grandfather Liang Qichao spent 14 years in exile in Japan after he advocated on behalf of turning the Qing Dynasty into a constitutional monarchy.[1] His ancestry came to haunt him during the Maoist Cultural Revolution when he was purged for his being the "grandson of China's biggest royalist". Liang was ultimately able to attend Peking University.[2]
Having learned about the activities of Greenpeace, Liang and three of his colleagues at the Academy for Chinese Culture came to agreement that
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Peking University, Oct. 29. 2010: Liang Congjie, an alumnus of Peking University who has been an environmental pioneer of China, passed away on Oct. 28 at the age of 78.
In 1950, Liang came to study at Tsinghua Department of History, which was soon merged into the department at Peking University in 1952 during a nation-wide reorganization of academic programs of colleges and universities. He graduated from PKU in 1958 with a master's degree in history.
Liang founded China’s first legally recognized environmental organization and turned out to be honored by international groups and the Chinese government alike.
Friends of Nature (FON), the group he established, announced his death on its website.
Prof. Liang was a historian and teacher at the private Academy for Chinese Culture when he and three co-workers decided in 1994 that China’s rapid development merited a citizens’ group that would work to solve environmental problems. “We knew from television about Greenpeace. But there wasn’t anything like that in Ch
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