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decertification and wind erosion.\u003cbr/\u003eBeijing has long recognized the gravity of the problems and already spends billions of  dollars each year on environmental protection.\u003cbr/\u003eBut strict new laws and government funding is not enough to reverse the severe  degradation.\u003cbr/\u003eEnvironmental agencies say individual behavior patterns have to change, too.\u003cbr/\u003eIn its latest move to tackle the problem China is introducing environmental education in  primary schools to instill awareness in children.\u003cbr/\u003eChina's leaders are usually fearful of excessive American cultural influences.\u003cbr/\u003eBut they are welcoming a new U-S-style environmental education program with open  arms.\u003cbr/\u003eThe so-called \"environmental curriculum\" is a well-established part of North American  and European school educational programs, but plays a small part in most Chinese  primary and secondary schools.\u003cbr/\u003eThat's about to change.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Hui Wen High School in Beijing along with fifty-four others in the capital, is  experimenting with a U-S style  educational program to instill environmental awareness  in children from an early age.\u003cbr/\u003eChina's environmental situation is in urgent need of attention, with choking cities,  poisoned rivers, severe deforestation and soil erosion.\u003cbr/\u003eEight of the world's ten most polluted cities are Chinese.\u003cbr/\u003eSeveral of the nation's major rivers are heavily polluted.\u003cbr/\u003eAmong them the Yellow River, the country's second longest which also serves as an  irrigation artery for grain production in the north.\u003cbr/\u003eRiver pollution is mainly caused by discharging factory and urban waste.\u003cbr/\u003eFor years, the government ignored the unpleasant side effects of industrial growth,  insisting national development must go on.\u003cbr/\u003eBut as side effects of environmental degradation take their toll on the country's  economic growth alarm bells are sounding in the Chinese government.\u003cbr/\u003eChina spent more than 10 (b) billion U-S dollars on pollution controls last year - one  percent of its 990 (b) billion U-S dollars economy.\u003cbr/\u003eSome future spending is slated to go toward reversing an environmental decline in the  west, a region of fragile deserts and grasslands where many of China's poor live.\u003cbr/\u003eThe communist government has made raising incomes there a priority for a five-year  economic plan that begins in 2001.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (Mandarin)\u003cbr/\u003e\"For the development of the Western region we have to learn form the experiences and  lessons of the development of the east. We want to avoid repeating the same mistakes  and transferring pollution from the east to the west.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPERCAPTION: Xie Zhenhua, director of China's State Environmental Protection  Agency (S-E-P-A)\u003cbr/\u003eBut enforcing stricter policies and pouring in money alone won't halt the environmental  decline.\u003cbr/\u003eThe mountains of trash often found littering Chinese cities show how it is also up to  China's 1.3 (b) billion people to learn to change their every day behavior to avoid  ecological disaster.\u003cbr/\u003ePlastic bags, Styrofoam lunch boxes -- so-called 'white pollution' -- are excessively  used and thoughtlessly tossed away.\u003cbr/\u003eEnvironmental awareness has been absent in China until only very recently.\u003cbr/\u003eNow, slowly and mainly in China's crowded cities, people are beginning to wise up.\u003cbr/\u003eThey're now demanding a cleaner, healthier environment for themselves and their  children.\u003cbr/\u003eEven so, recycling in Beijing is the exception rather than the rule.\u003cbr/\u003eFour years ago, China's Ministry of Science and Technology together with a New York  based nonprofit organization - Global Communications for Conservation - founded a  pioneering joint initiative to bring environmental education to Chinese schools.\u003cbr/\u003eThe alliance - termed the China Environmental Global Alliance, or C-E-G-A - provides  fifty-five schools with textbooks and teaching techniques.\u003cbr/\u003eDean Paschall, executive director of C-E-G-A, knows the importance of environmental  education for children.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"What we are doing is raising an entire generation now with a different belief system, a  different behavior pattern. So, as we move forward into the next generation that they will  be handling resources in a way that\u003cbr/\u003ecreates more sustainable future.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPERCAPTION: Dean Paschall, Executive Director of China Environmental Global  Alliance (C-E-G-A)\u003cbr/\u003eThe program uses teaching techniques that were unheard of in Chinese schools since  they were introduced in 1999.\u003cbr/\u003eClass room discussions are often led by students who are encouraged to initiate their  own projects - such as collecting garbage at home, determining what can be recycled  and policing their neighborhoods for environmental blackspots.\u003cbr/\u003eThis is a dramatic contrast to traditional Chinese classrooms, where student-teacher  interactions are tightly controlled and note memorization is the standard fare.\u003cbr/\u003eThe new teaching technique not only influences the thinking of the students but also  that of their parents and friends.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (Mandarin)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Before, when my mom washed clothes she used the water only once. But now after I  talked to her, she reuses the water afterwards.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPERCAPTION: Dong Hang, 16-year old student at Hui Wen High School in Beijing\u003cbr/\u003eEmpowering children with this kind of knowledge means they can now teach their  parents a thing or two about helping to keep the planet clean.\u003cbr/\u003eThe next generation of China's populace look set to plough the way toward a brighter  future in an ever changing world.\u003cbr/\u003eBeijing, Tianjin, China; June 2000 and file \u003cbr/\u003eBeijing - 6 June 2000\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot of classroom - teacher standing in front of students\u003cbr/\u003e2. Pan from poster to teacher\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close up on students listening\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close up on poster\u003cbr/\u003eTianjin - File (2 February 1996)\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide shot of factories, smoking chimneys\u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid shot of two chimneys, smoke\u003cbr/\u003eBeijing - File (9 February 1996)\u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid shot of water running out of pipes into lake\u003cbr/\u003eBeijing - 5 June 2000\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide shot of press conference - podium, audience\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Xie Zhenhua, director of China's State Environmental  Protection Agency (S-E-P-A)\u003cbr/\u003eBeijing - File (June 1998)\u003cbr/\u003e10. Tilt up from garbage to water\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close up on plastic bags on ground\u003cbr/\u003e12. Tilt up Styrofoam boxes to garbage littered path\u003cbr/\u003eBeijing - File (February 1998)\u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid shot of children throwing garbage into bins\u003cbr/\u003e14. Tilt up of children throwing garbage into bins\u003cbr/\u003eBeijing - 6 June 2000\u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid shot of girl in classroom explaining poster\u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid shot of children listening\u003cbr/\u003e17. Mid shot of American visitors listening\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dean Paschall, Executive Director of China Environmental  Global Alliance (C-E-G-A)\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide shot if classroom, girl and teacher standing in front\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close up on girl in front of class, talking\u003cbr/\u003e21. Close up on projection on wall\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Dong Hang, 16-year-old student at Hui Wen High School  in Beijing\u003cbr/\u003e23. 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