Liu Jianqiang (刘鉴强) is an award-winning investigative journalist and the Beijing editor of Chinadialogue, the first English-Chinese website focusing on reporting environmental issues.

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Introduction: On Environmental and Ecosystem Protection: What Have We Done? by LI Dun
Chapter 1: Competition for Water Resources and Its Economic and Political Implications by GUO Weiqing and ZHOU Yu
Chapter 2: Initial Exploration of Environmental NGOs’ Involvement in Environmental Mass Incidents by LI Bo
Chapter 3: Correlation between Water Pollution and Deaths Caused by Digestive Tract Tumors in the Huai River Basin by YANG Gonghuan
Chapter 4: The Urgent Need for an Environment and Health Law: A Study of 63 Health Hazard Incidents by LV Zhongmei & HUANG Kai
Chapter 5: Environmental and Health Risks: Unusual Expansion of Waste Incineration in China Needs Attention by YANG Changjiang
Chapter 6: War on Smog by LIU Xiaoxing
Chapter 7: Smog Brings Widespread and Far-Reaching Impact to Human Health by LIN Na
Chapter 8: Environmental PILs Returned to the Starting Point in 2013 by LIN Yanmei and WANG Xiaoxi
Chapter 9: The Revision of China’s Environmental Protection Law from a Minor Change to a Critical Improvement by QIE Jianrong
Chapter 10: Ecological Red Lines: Concept, Features and Supervision by ZOU Changxin
Chapter 11: How to Restore the Siberian Tiger Population at Changbai Mountain by PIAO Zhengji
Chapter 12: The Siege of Cities by Chemical Plants: How to Make a Breakthrough? by PENG Liguo
Chapter 13: The 2012 Pollution Information Transparency Index (PITI) Fourth Annual Assessment of Environmental Transparency in 113 Chinese Cities: Bottlenecks & Breakthroughs
Chapter 14: The “Last” Report on China’s Rivers by LI Bo, YAO Songqiao, YU Yin and GUO Qiaoyu
Chapter 15: Report on Applying for the Disclosure of Information on 122 Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Plants across China by Wuhu Ecology Center
Chapter 16: Annual Indexes of the Environment Green Papers 2013—Changing Trends of the Environment in China
Chapter 17: Major Environmental Incidents and Events in 2013