A smoggy story

A government official tries to enhance public awareness of environmental issues through a novel. Liu Zhihua reports.

Li Chunyuan has published hundreds of opinion pieces in mainstream newspapers and magazines, such as People's Daily and China Environment News. As a top official of the Environmental Protection Bureau of Langfang, a city in northern China's Hebei province, most of Li's writings have naturally focused on environmental issues.

He has also written a few short stories.