Dai Qing

Dai Qing, who is the daughter of a revolutionary martyr, former missile technician and one time intelligence agent, Dai Qing is a fearless journalist who has been outspoken in her opposition to the Chinese government's plans for the Three Gorges dam. Dai Qing’s battle is fighting against “the most environmentally and socially destructive project in the world” and her ongoing work to safeguard Beijing’s dwindling water supplies. And she has very high reputation in the whole world as a fearless social and environmental activist by working as a missile technician and intelligence agent. But from an interview, she said frankly, “I think people now are holding a wrong idea of me. I’m not an activist nor dissident, as you know, I am a writer. More specifically, I’m a historical investigative journalist. So my mission is, and only is to dig out something really happen in China and tell the truth.” We can clearly see in the past four hundred years, the water supply has changed significantly because of the rapidly growing human activities. And it brings China fierce consequences: Deforestation, water and soil erosion, sediment accumulation, raised water riverbed, enervate reservoir ability and rapid happened flood. Maybe Environment is the biggest problem in nowadays China. So Chinese people especially the central government should take serious attention and plans to control the bad situation! But despite national and international opposition to the mega-project and a decided lack of international investors, the Chinese government began work on the Three Gorges Dam in 1994. Construction is expected to take 20 years. Believing they still have a chance to stop construction, Dai Qing and international environmental groups continue to challenge the gargantuan dam. This is a very precious willpower and determination which led her win the 1993 Goldman Environmental Prize. She has a very profound perspective about the truth of what the Three Gorge Dam did from 1994