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The man considered the founder of the environmental movement in Chica, Liang Congjie, was born August 4, (died ). Liang was an historian who took the lead, with three others, to form the first recognized environmental non-governmental organization in China in , called “Friends of Nature.”
Liang came from a family long associated with governmental and civic reform. His grandfather promoted the change from an imperial to a constitutional government at the turn of the 20th Century. For his efforts, he was exiled to Japan for 14 years. Liang’s father was an architect who lobbied vigorously for the preservation of Beijing’s ancient walls when the Communist government took over; unfortunately, he lost that battle. Liang’s detractors in China often noted that he was a descendent of “public intellectuals” and royalists, characteristics antipathetic to the Chinese Communist regime.
Nonetheless, Liang persevered and, as a forty-year-old student, studied histo