In Response to the Municipal Tunnel-Building Program GDUFS Appeals to Protect the Beautiful Campus
Time:November 28, 2012 Author: Editor: Source:
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On the afternoon of Nov. 20th, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS) convened a meeting to discuss the 搈unicipal tunnel-building program of Maiyun Mountain? The meeting was led by Liu Wei, Vice-President of the School Union, and the attendants included: NPC members of all levels, representatives of the CPPCC National Committee members, representatives of retired Cadres, representatives of "Two Committees" and representatives of students. They had a heated discussion on the program in terms of education, campus environment, lives of the people, and the ecological environment of Baiyun Mountain.
the scene of the meeting
The tunnel will cross the northern campus of GDUFS.
The person in charge of the logistics department introduced the program in detail as well as the influences on GDUFS. According to the relative documents from the Municipal Construction Committee, the program will start from Huangshi Road on the West, going through Baiyun Mountain, and finally reaching Yunxi Road on the East. The total length will be about 6.4 kilometer. It will cross the south road of GDUFS, which means, once the program is approved, this road will become a bustling municipal main road. When that happens, GDUFS will be haunted by flows of people, traffic streams, noise, exhaust pollution, and unstable social order 棗 all of which will greatly influence the ecological environment as well as the culture of the campus. Meanwhile, such buildings as the 1st Teaching Building, the Library, the Clinic, the Yunshan Apartment A Zone, the International College, and the High-Voltage room on the South of the campus will all be torn down.
The program will destruct the environment in terms of both ecology and humanities.
After hearing the introduction of the program, the representatives shared their opinions respectively. They unanimously agreed that the program was not reasonable enough and they vehenemently opposed all municipal projects which are against the ecological environment. It was said that humanities construction is rather critical in the construction of an international trade centre and a livable city, which Guangzhou has long been committed to, while the university is the core element of humanities construction. He added that what Guangzhou needed was not the roads, but the talent. The program may bring economic benefits to the city, but it will greatly impact the environment both in terms of humanities and ecology, which can not be restored for a long time. "It takes ten year to grow trees, but a hundred year to rear people" a teacher remarked. A beautiful campus cannot come into being without painstaking efforts after its founding, and it is of great importance to the lives and works of both teachers and students.
the representative speaks warmly
The program destroys the ecological environment.
Another representative said, since the implementation of the program would pass across the lung of the city (Baiyun Mountain is called "lung of the city", for it has exerted great influence on the conditioning of air, conservation of soil and water, and the protection of species), it would not only have a detrimental impact on the health of the people on the campus, but would also impact the interest of Guangzhou citizens. Representative of the retired pointed out that Hu Jintao, General-Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), stressed an importance on the ecological construction when delivering a report at the opening of the 18th National Congress of the CPC. Environmental damage is irreversible. The program should NOT be approved, for its lacking in all-around research as well as in environmental assessment.
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