{"id":35582,"date":"2009-03-13T12:48:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T19:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=35582"},"modified":"2009-03-13T12:48:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T19:48:18","slug":"chinas-green-champion-sidelined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/03\/chinas-green-champion-sidelined\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Green Champion Sidelined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2009\/mar\/12\/activism-china\">The Guardian is reporting <\/a>that environmental defender Pan Yue, a foe of industrial pollution, has been pushed to the sidelines as the country refocuses on economic stimulation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEnvironmentalists fear his fall from prominence could signal a change of direction by the Chinese government and a weakening of the power of the environment protection authorities less than a year after they were upgraded to ministry status.<\/p>\n<p>At an awards ceremony in December he explained his silence had been due to ill health, but environmentalists suspect a more political reason. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t look sick to me. I don&#8217;t think health is the problem,&#8221; said Feng Yongfeng, an influential environmental journalist. &#8220;People are saying that it is because the government will launch lots of projects to save the economy. 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