Canfa Wang

Canfa Wang is a senior professor in Environmental Law at China university of Political Science and Law (CUPL) and famous environmental lawyer. He was elected as a people’s deputy at People’s Congress of Beijing once again in January 2013. He established the Center for Legal assistance to pollution Victims (CLAPV) in 1998, the first environmental law NGO in China. Professor Wang has taken part in the drafting of more than 30 laws and regulations and rules on environmental protection in China. Wang was elected as A Yearly Person of Green China in 2005. He is one of Time Magazine’s 2007 World Heroes of the Environment. He was praised as one of ten top persons for outstanding contribution to rule of law in china for ten years by CCTV.