The Road Ahead: The First Green Long March documents the process of a group of students discovering the wonder of as well as the human impact on the natural world in China.
In the year leading up to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Beijing Forestry University and international NGO Future Generations teamed up to organize the first “Green Long March” for Chinese students. The goal: empowering young people to become advocates for the environment.
Leading up to the event, 2,000 college students from across the nation mobilized to make a powerful statement. Forming 10 survey teams, they traveled by train, car and foot, to see China’s environmental challenges up close and to spread their passion for conservation.
Notebooks in hand, the teams made their respective treks, from the great deserts of the northwest to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia. In The Road Ahead: The First Green Long March Director Ryan Wong hones in on a few compelling students and captures the experience through their eyes.
