{"id":34753,"date":"2017-04-25T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-06-19T11:29:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T11:29:03","slug":"9753-liu-xiaoguang-and-the-alashan-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/9753-liu-xiaoguang-and-the-alashan-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Liu Xiaoguang and the Alashan legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-56498e12-a563-72ae-1fab-fff60de5416e\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alxa_League\">Alashan<\/a> when the weather gets warmer to plant a forest in his memory,\u201d says Zhang Li, secretary-general of the Alashan SEE Foundation. That seems an appropriate way to remember Liu Xiaoguang, the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.see.org.cn\/Conservation\">Alashan SEE<\/a> an non-governmental organisation\u00a0dedicated to combating desertification in Inner Mongolia.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-56498e12-a563-72ae-1fab-fff60de5416e\">Liu passed away in January 2017 after falling seriously ill, just one month shy of his <\/span><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-56498e12-a563-72ae-1fab-fff60de5416e\">62<\/span>nd birthday. Born in 1955, his career spanned a range of professions. As a government official\u00a0he was regarded as a rising political star and even considered for the prestigious position of Beijing\u2019s deputy mayor. But Liu chose to quit officialdom for business, where he excelled, turning a state-owned firm that was struggling to pay staff wages into an international conglomerate worth 200 billion yuan (US$29 billion). The Beijing Capital Group now has five listed subsidiaries.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-56498e12-a563-72ae-1fab-fff60de5416e\">But Liu Xiaoguang also leaves behind a different kind of legacy. As China\u2019s real estate sector began to boom he partnered with influential friends from the business world to establish a charitable endeavour called Alashan SEE (founded in 2004) that remains dedicated to tackling desertification.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiu Xiaoguang is gone\u00a0but we will always remember him and carry on his spirit,\u201d says Zhang Li, a professor of ecology and the current secretary-general of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.see.org.cn\/Foundation\">Alashan SEE Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-56498e12-a563-72ae-1fab-fff60de5416e\">Founded in 2004 on World Earth Day, the Alashan SEE Ecological Association was China\u2019s first charity with a \u201csocial\u201d mission, made up of \u201centrepreneurs\u201d, aimed at protecting \u201cecology\u201d \u2013 hence \u201cSEE\u201d. In 2014 it was given permission to raise public funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To date it has provided assistance to over 400 Chinese environmental organisations and or activists, furthering its aim of building a platform on which entrepreneurs, non-governmental organisations and the public can work together to protect the environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Entrepreneurs awaken<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Liu\u2019s aim was to mobilise the financial resources of China\u2019s newly-rich entrepreneurs to help solve the root causes of the country\u2019s environmental crisis, which were hampering development. Desertification and sandstorms were particular concerns.<\/p>\n<p>His call created a new phenomenon; entrepreneurs and businesspeople working to protect the environment. Years later, when China\u2019s \u201csmog\u201d was recognised as a serious threat to public health, a number of those early members also\u00a0<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-56498e12-a563-72ae-1fab-fff60de5416e\">became\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftchinese.com\/story\/001070849\">opinion<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftchinese.com\/story\/001070849\"> leaders<\/a> on air quality issues.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-56498e12-a563-72ae-1fab-fff60de5416e\">Liu\u2019s own awakening was inspired by a trip to the desert in October 2003 when he was chairman of the Beijing Capital Group, a huge real estate developer. He happened to visit the Alashan desert in the far west of Inner Mongolia where it\u2019s believed the sandstorms that strike Beijing originate. Liu found the sight of the vast desert thought-provoking: \u201cWhen we\u2019re taking from nature, what can we do to repay it?\u201d he once asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Liu used poetry based on his experience of walking through the desert to call on China\u2019s entrepreneurs to stand up and use their wealth and talent to tackle the problem. For Liu\u2019s peers, who like him had experienced being sent to rural areas in their youth, this struck a chord.<\/p>\n<p>On returning to Beijing, he made over one hundred phonecalls to friends, and more than sixty soon agreed to contribute 100,000 yuan (US$14,500) a year to a decade-long project to combat desertification in Alashan.<\/p>\n<p>On World Earth Day in 2004 they travelled there to announce the foundation of Alashan SEE.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cAlashan Declaration\u201d reflected Liu\u2019s intent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognise that while China\u2019s economy is developing rapidly some of our environmentally-unfriendly ways of thinking, working and living are causing us to destroy the natural environment on which we rely\u2026 As modern China\u2019s first generation of entrepreneurs\u2026 we cannot hand the next generation a China environmentally damaged and trapped in an economic vicious circle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chinadialogue-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/content_image\/content_image\/2559\/Picture2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; width: 560px; height: 375px;\" src=\"https:\/\/chinadialogue-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/content_image\/content_image\/2559\/Picture2.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"caption\">Liu Xiaoguang planting trees in Alashan\u00a0(<\/span><span class=\"caption\">Image: <\/span><span class=\"caption\">Alashan<\/span><span class=\"caption\"> SEE)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-56498e12-a563-72ae-1fab-fff60de5416e\"><strong>Procedural justice <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-56498e12-a563-72ae-1fab-fff60de5416e\">Alashan SEE had plenty of well-known tycoons backing it: Ren Zhiqiang, Wang Shi, Pan Shiqi. All representing a variety of backgrounds. Some had lived overseas and were used to clean air while others were bosses of state-owned firms. Liu\u2019s first problem was how to get such people to work together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An executive board was needed. Liu drafted a list of 15 names, which was initially rejected. This forced the preparatory group to come up with a voting system.<\/p>\n<p>Yang Xin, founder of environmental group Green River and a recipient of assistance from the Alashan SEE Foundation, witnessed this process. He describes the entrepreneurs crowded into a yurt by the side of Moonlight Lake arguing fiercely for votes. Liu\u2019s character and the esteem in which he was held meant he was unanimously elected head of the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an event to mark the group\u2019s<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-56498e12-a563-72ae-1fab-fff60de5416e\">10<\/span>th anniversary in 2014, Liu recalled: \u201cThey stood up one after another to speak against me, into the middle of the night. But that taught me that only with democracy and discussion can everyone come together to move forward in the same direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-56498e12-a563-72ae-1fab-fff60de5416e\">Yang Peng, former secretary-general of the group said that there was never a \u201cchairman\u2019s seat\u201d at their meetings, members would sit where they wanted when they arrived. \u201cThat way everyone was equal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it\u2019s because businesspeople are particularly concerned with the process of management and decision-making but Alashan has applied the same procedure to all their project funding applications.<\/p>\n<p>Yang Xin showed\u00a0China Dialogue a certificate signed by Liu for a project located where the Qinghai-Tibet railway passes through the source of the Yangtze River. The sum of 200,000 yuan (US$29,000) had been awarded by the evaluation committee following a presentation about the project and a swift decision.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-56498e12-a563-72ae-1fab-fff60de5416e\"><strong>Teaching people to fish<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although Alashan SEE started out by focusing on desertification, nowadays much of the foundation\u2019s work is in providing assistance for environmental NGOs.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang Li <span id=\"docs-internal-guid-56498e12-a563-72ae-1fab-fff60de5416e\">told\u00a0<\/span>China Dialogue that when founded the group had seen that China\u2019s environmental NGOs were growing only slowly and required help both with funding and developing capacity to deliver services. As the foundation has grown its work has shifted from simply providing funding to helping with capacity-building.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-56498e12-a563-72ae-1fab-fff60de5416e\">Currently, Alashan SEE helps environmental NGOs grow and encourages companies to take up environmental protection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ma Jun, founder of the Institute for Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE)\u00a0<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-56498e12-a563-72ae-1fab-fff60de5416e\">told\u00a0<\/span>China Dialogue that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.see.org.cn\/Foundation\/Article\/Detail\/1390\">green supply chain initiative<\/a> in the property development sector, run by Alashan SEE in partnership with a number of real estate firms, uses data from the IPE\u2019s public pollution database to help select steel and concrete suppliers and monitor corporate environmental performance.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-56498e12-a563-72ae-1fab-fff60de5416e\">According to the organisation\u2019s website, as of December 2016, 71 real estate firms were participating in the initiative. Those firms had sales of almost 1,300 billion yuan (US$189 billion) in 2015, about 15% of the total for the sector, with their supply chains reaching over 2,000 other firms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next in line<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Protecting the environment was very important to Liu Xiaoguang.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe attended the SEE member\u2019s conference, fundraising event and board meeting in October last year. You could see it was exhausting for him, but he kept on raising questions. SEE was a part of his life,\u201d says Li.<\/p>\n<p>By that point Liu was only able to sleep for one or two hours a night, and only with the aid of sleeping pills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnlightened\u201d entrepreneurs such as Liu are crucial for environmental protection. Although overall awareness of the need to protect the environment is increasing in China, rapid economic development means the environment is facing unprecedented challenges.<\/p>\n<p>But thankfully, Liu\u2019s work will be carried on. Over one hundred corporate members of SEE have requested lifetime membership since Liu passed away, committing to a lifetime of following in his footsteps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He founded one of China\u2019s most influential environmental organisations and left a remarkable legacy, writes Liu Qin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":59465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[761],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-34753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Liu Xiaoguang and the Alashan legacy | Dialogue Earth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"He 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