This lawmaker is eco-friendly
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March 10, 2010, Wednesday
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COMPARED with some colleagues' motions on important state affairs, Chen Fei, a 55-year-old farmer lawmaker, came to the annual legislative session with a modest proposal:
How to make ID card eco-friendly.
"An ID card has information on both sides. When you want to photocopy it, you have to use the photocopy machine twice," he said.
He handed in a proposal mandating that all key information be printed on only one side of the card during the annual full session of the National People's Congress, the country's national legislative body, which began last Friday.
"Some might think a tiny problem like this does not need attention at such an important session," he said.
"But I think it is related to saving energy and reducing emission of greenhouse gases, since there are plenty of occasions for everyone to photocopy his ID card."
He also proposed charging customers when they use disposable appliances at hotels.
In the past three years, all the proposals that Chen has submitted as an NPC deputy were related to protecting the environment.
A farmer in Yongjia in east China's Zhejiang Province, Chen was elected a deputy to the NPC in 2008.
In 2000, he was shocked to find trees in his rural hometown covered with plastic bags that had been blown up by a storm.
"They looked ugly. My son also told me that they were poisonous. I decided that I could not let it be," Chen recalled.
Since then, at his own expense, Chen has handed out bamboo baskets to people, hoping that they can stop using plastic shopping bags, starting at local bazaars and later in big cities, including Shanghai and Beijing.
How to make ID card eco-friendly.
"An ID card has information on both sides. When you want to photocopy it, you have to use the photocopy machine twice," he said.
He handed in a proposal mandating that all key information be printed on only one side of the card during the annual full session of the National People's Congress, the country's national legislative body, which began last Friday.
"Some might think a tiny problem like this does not need attention at such an important session," he said.
"But I think it is related to saving energy and reducing emission of greenhouse gases, since there are plenty of occasions for everyone to photocopy his ID card."
He also proposed charging customers when they use disposable appliances at hotels.
In the past three years, all the proposals that Chen has submitted as an NPC deputy were related to protecting the environment.
A farmer in Yongjia in east China's Zhejiang Province, Chen was elected a deputy to the NPC in 2008.
In 2000, he was shocked to find trees in his rural hometown covered with plastic bags that had been blown up by a storm.
"They looked ugly. My son also told me that they were poisonous. I decided that I could not let it be," Chen recalled.
Since then, at his own expense, Chen has handed out bamboo baskets to people, hoping that they can stop using plastic shopping bags, starting at local bazaars and later in big cities, including Shanghai and Beijing.
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