Professor Niu Wenyuan, a researcher with the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Policy and Management, has received the 2007 International Saint Francis Prize for the Environment.
Professor Niu is the founder of Chinese environmental monitoring and warning system and responsible for China's national sustainable development strategy program.
Initiated in 1993, the International Saint Francis Prize for the Environment was promoted by the Franciscan Centre of Environmental Studies in Rome and under the patronage of the President and Prime Minister of Italy as well as the European Union Commissioner for the Environment. It is designed to award to persons or institutions that have made an outstanding contribution to the improvement, protection or conservation of the environment, with particular emphasis on multidisciplinary activities.
