A life dedicated to a lake's recovery
China DailyKong Hainan, a guest professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University's school of environmental science and engineering, instructs his students in Dali, Yunnan province. CHINA DAILY In the past two decades, Kong Hainan has spent over 200 days a year conducting research near Erhai Lake in the Dali Bai autonomous prefecture, Yunnan province. The guest professor of the school of environmental science and engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University may already be 70, but he still takes an average of 30,000 steps per day because of his research, leading a team of experts and students to collect samples from villages in Dali. The fund is jointly managed by the China Water Environment Group Limited and the Yunnan Dali Research Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.