中国的环境问题根源在体制，只要体制不变，环保在中国只能步步艰辛而收效甚微

The root of China's environmental problems lies in the system. If the system does not change, then environmental conservation in China can only make gradual, arduous steps forward, and will not have a profound effect.

看了北京记者的文章，非常沉痛的心情。环保总局在一些大型企业家眼里一文不值！我很多次与一些国字头的企业一、二把手共聚晚宴，他们对环保总局掀起的环保风暴当成耳边风，而且对潘岳付总局长进行人身攻击。非常地奇怪，地方上环保局长经常地被当地一把手训斥：谁阻碍了招商引资项目，就让谁下台！不是亲眼所见，你相信吗：宁夏的中卫县免费提供沙漠土地，召来上百个恶劣污染企业入驻直接排放毒水。结果造成了黄河源头的污染。堂堂武汉台商食品工业区引来的数十家食品工业，居然没有污水处理厂，直接排入市区的月牙湖！去武汉市区看看有湖有沟渠的地方，富营养污染和太湖有什么差别？山东齐鲁石化总厂的生产中心排放的有毒气体，足以令人立刻致死。而几十米处居然是职工家属区？云南滇池表面的水已成了绿色的油漆状，可以想象地下水的污染程度。但当地的环保官员却发表声明：不影响饮用水安全标准？！为什么如此声明，因为当地的环保局官员不属于环保总局任命，地方官员掌握着这些官员的生死大权。如此种种，国家环保总局成了单口相声演员，众多企业家们对所有的环保风暴都笑笑而已。导致黄河治理失败、淮河治理失败、大小造纸厂把排污管道修到了长江的深处、大型燃煤电厂的脱硫装置形同虚设，痛心啊，谁能把环保总局当成执法部门？目前只能呼吁：省、市、地、县一把手的责任心、企业家的良心、全体民众的觉悟和参予！求求你们了！！！

Having read this article from the Beijing-based journalist, my mind is extreme heavy. SEPA means nothing for some of the well-established businesses! I've dined out with the top executives of some of the state-owned companies. They treated environmental movement brought about by SEPA as something of trivial importance, and they even verbally attacked Mr. Pan Yue's personal integrity. It is very strange that the heads of environmental protection bureau are always blamed by their superiors as creators of obstacles for business development and thus as someone who should be kicked out of the place! If it is not seen with my own eyes, I would never believe this: Zhongwei, a county in Ningxia Province, has actually provided desert land for free for hundreds of heavy pollutors and attracted them to build up factories and to pour poisoned water directly. This has polluted the source of Yellow River. The dozens of food producers in the well-known Taiwanese Food Industry Zone in Wuhan has actually no wasted water processing facilities! They are directly giving out their wastes into the Yueya Lake of the city! Go look at the waters in Wuhan, is the situation of abundand nutrition pollution there anything different than that of Tai Lake? The poisoned gas emitted from Qilu Petrochemicals is more than enough to kill a man. But not far away, there's the residential area for the employees!? The surface of Dianchi Lake in Yunnan Province has turned paint-like green. You can imagine the degree of pollution underneath. However, the local officials announced publicly that this would never influence the implementation of safety standards for drinking water?! Why did they do this? That's because that the officials in local environmental protection bureau do not report to SEPA, instead, they report to their corresponding regional governments (and are therefore under the latter's control). Because of these, SEPA has become an actor of solo comedy dialogue, with business leaders laughing at their environmental movement and doing nothing more. This is the true reason behind the failure of the cleaning-up of Yellow River and Huaihe River, the construction of some emission pipes leading all the way to the heart of Yangtze River and the invisibility of desulfurization devices in some large scale power plants. How sad it is! Who can build SEPA into the legislation system? What we can do now is only to cross fingers for the top leaders of provincial level, city level, regional level and county level to be responsible, for the business people to have their conscious minds, and for the public as a whole to realize the importance and be part of it! I'm begging for that!!!

环境问题已不仅仅是污染问题，它涉及到太多的深层次的问题，地方利益保护、经济发展和环保孰轻孰重？官员的政绩与之密切相关的升迁.....都与环保是把软尺子还是硬杠子，与法律赋予环保局的执法权限（现行的行政处罚权）密切相关。

历史的重任让环保局这个“小矮人“扛？可是他如何面对如此众多的环境灾难？

呼吁全国人大代表关注此事！再这样下去，又好又快的发展是个永不能兑现的承诺！经济发展的成果将会被巨大的经济支付---身体的医疗费用、生态的恢复费用、污染的治理费用.....

经济帐不算都知道，管理不顺的体制必须要让人大代表知晓。

环境保护的NGO组织，让我们声援国家环保局吧。
和他们一起面对险象环生的环境，发出正义的声音和采取环保的行动，救救环境，救救祖孙后代的生存空间。直至污染，监督举报污染的企业，向县级人大反映，要求政府官员负责，建设和谐社会不能让环境成为现在人民和子孙后代永远的痛！

陕西省妈妈环保志愿者 西安环境大使 珙桐

Environmental problems are no longer merely pollution problems; they affect numerous, multi-faceted issues, such as the protection of benefits, economic development and environmental conservation. Are any of these of greater or lesser importance? The rise of government debt is closely correlated with these issues...Closely related to these issues, moreover, is whether one takes a soft or tough stance on environmental conservation, and what law enforcement rights the judiciary allots to the Environmental Conservation Agency (such as rights to impose administrative penalties). Will the great task of history be carried by this "little man" - the Environmental Conservation Agency? How will it face so many environmental disasters? We should advocate that the National People’s Congress pay close attention to these issues! If we go on this way, positive and rapid development will forever be an empty promise! The consequences of economic development will be matched by massive expenditures: the costs necessary for medical treatment, the regeneration of the eco-system, and the management of pollution…Even discounting the budget, one knows that the National People’s Congress must be made aware of a mechanism that is not smoothly administered.
NGO’s for environmental conservation allow us to show our support for the National Environmental Conservation Agency. Together with them, we can face these ubiquitous dangers to the environment, to advocate justice and undertake actions to conserve the environment, in order to salvage the living environment for future generations. The supervision of polluting businesses must be put before the county-level National Congress, to demand that government officials take responsibility. To establish a harmonious society, one cannot allow the environment to become a lasting grievance for current and future generations!
- Gong Tong: Environmental conservation volunteer from Shaanxi province / Xi’an Environmental Ambassador