Feng Yongfeng, 284, 302
fertilizer, 54, 66, 168, 193, 194, 202, 252, 253, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260–61, 262, 263, 264, 267, 292, 298, 311
flood-control projects, 45, 46, 50
floods, 192
food shortages, 260–61, 267–68
“Foolish Old Man Who Moved the Mountains, The” fable, 24–25
French, Paul, 143
Friedman, Thomas, 271
Friends of Nature, 299–300, 302
gangs, 91, 126, 137
Gansu Province, 187, 192, 197–202, 205–6, 217, 226, 296
garbage, and growth of cities, 125–26
genetically modified crops, 251–52, 255, 322–23
Genghis Khan, 207, 295
Giant Leap Forward, 53
giant Yangtze softshell turtle, 76
glaciers, 18, 35, 36, 39, 205–7, 213–16, 217, 219–20, 221, 222
global dimming, 296
Global Environment Fund, 273–74
Global Village, 302
global warming, 36, 174, 206, 207, 216–18, 219, 226, 228, 292, 296
Golmud, Qinghair Province, 31–33
Golmud-Lhasa railway (Sky Train), 24–40
“Go West” policy, 121, 208, 218
GDPism, 104
Grand Canal, 54, 109
grasslands, 16, 18, 19, 34–35, 37, 122, 191, 192, 218, 295, 296, 297–98, 299, 305, 306, 307, 312, 314
Great Green Wall, 279, 280, 297
Great Leap Forward, 46, 47, 155, 166, 189, 198, 204, 205, 206, 255, 257, 278, 282, 321
Great Northern Wilderness, 271–74, 277–79, 284, 292
Great Wall, 116, 173, 185, 187, 190–91, 201, 203, 306, 314, 317
“Green” (song), 302
“green GDP,” 270, 291
Greenpeace, 36, 302
Green Revolution, 252, 256, 261
green tides, 266–67
Green Volunteers League, 302
Guangdong Province, 73, 84–89, 90–98, 217, 324
Guangxi Province, 73, 84, 91, 92, 217
Guo Kai, 55–56, 59, 321
Han River, 45, 54
Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, 112, 320
Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, 269, 274, 278
Harris, Richard, 38, 67, 68
haze, 79, 95, 117, 120, 123, 126, 151–52, 155, 172, 179, 185, 212, 235, 266, 267, 282
He Qing, 128
health problems
agricultural additives and, 256
air pollution and, 172–73, 179–80
birth defects and, 167, 173
blood farming and HIV infection and, 163–65
coal mining and, 174
economic development and pollution and, 114–15
obesity and, 134
pollution and, 84, 156–60, 172–73, 179–80
recycling programs and, 84, 89–90
heating systems, 238
Hebei Province, 104, 177, 179, 217, 230, 233, 299
Heilongjiang Province, 269–71, 275–79, 280, 281, 286, 288, 289, 292, 324
Henan Province, 53, 151–60, 199, 202, 209, 253, 257, 320
herders, 33–35, 40, 213–14, 218
Hezhe ethnic minority, 272
Hillary, Edmund, 37
Hilton, James, 5–6, 8, 9, 10, 20, 21
Himalaya mountain range, 27, 29–31, 35–36, 37, 56
Hitler, Adolf, 31
HIV infection rates, 163–65
Hong, Susan, 26
Hong Kong, 6, 26, 85, 86, 90, 91, 94, 95, 97, 121, 138, 142, 245, 296
Hu Chunhua, 308
Hu Jia, 10, 301, 305
Hu Jintao, 30, 45, 52, 58–59, 77, 112, 246, 270, 290, 304, 321, 322
Hu Yanhu, 107
Huai River, 45, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158–60, 276, 320
Huainan, Prince of, 12, 290
Huangbaiyu, Liaoning Province, 240–43
Huaxi, Jiangsu Province, 99–104, 115–17
hunting, in nature reserves, 77
Huo Daishan, 158
India, 55–56, 318
industrial development
Caofeidian reclamation project and, 233–34
dam construction and, 57–58
energy for, 172
in Henan Province, 156, 159
in Inner Mongolia, 308
pollution and, 85, 94, 99, 102, 103–4, 107, 108–10, 112, 114, 156, 157, 159, 178, 181, 193, 194, 230, 231, 233, 235, 244, 246, 263, 296, 299
water resources and, 221
in Xinjiang, 208, 212–13
Yellow River and, 193
Inner Mongolia, 55, 173, 186, 192, 193, 196, 202, 210, 217, 287, 293, 294–99, 301, 302, 306, 307, 308–9, 312, 317
Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) technology, 184–85
International Union for Conservation of Nature, 281
iron industry, 108, 172, 178, 180, 241
irrigation projects, 45–46, 53, 54, 56, 108, 134, 155, 158, 196, 202, 205, 210–11, 216, 220, 252, 296
