A tale of two deputies

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Source: CCTV.com | 03-17-2008 12:58

Deputy Fu Qiping is from Tengtou township, in Zhejiang province. He is the CPC branch head in the village, and also a "green" advocate.

Deputy Fu Qiping is from Tengtou township, in Zhejiang province. He is the CPC branch head in the village, and also a "green" advocate.

The village set up the country's first environmental protection committee at township level -- 18 years ago.

He says that since the establishment of the committee the village has rejected over 60 investment plans from big enterprises.

NPC deputy Fu Qiping said, "Once a businessman from Indonesia expressed his will to invest in our township. His potential investment totaled over ten million yuan. But we rejected the project. That's because our environmental protection evaluation warned of its pollution threat."

His efforts over the past 18 years have finally paid off. And the "green" village has become a profitable tourism attraction.

In 2007 alone, the township's income from the tourism sector alone -- totaled over 70 million yuan.