4 Quotes & Sayings By Chai Jing

Chai Jing is a Chinese documentary filmmaker. Her short film "The Fourth Generation" about a dispute between a worker and a manager from Huayi Brothers, China's largest producer of milk powder, was awarded the Golden Rooster Award for Best Documentary at the 2014 Shanghai International Film Festival. In 2015, she launched a feature-length documentary, "Factory Girls," which follows three women from Huayi Brothers as they struggle to make ends meet.

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Are you afraid that you're hurting your national auto industry? - Environmental protection isn't a burden. It's innovation. Protecting a backward industry is no way to promote innovation. The government's role is to set standards and then ensure fair competition in the market. You win the market through fair competition. Chai Jing
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Half of the days in 2014, I had to confine my daughter to my home like a prisoner because the air quality in Beijing was so poor. One morning, I saw my daughter banging on the window... The day will come when she asks me, 'Why do you keep me here? What is going to hurt me when I go outside?' Chai Jing
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Environmental protection and economic development are not in conflict. Environmental protection is not a burden but a source for innovation. It can increase competition, create jobs, and lifts the economy. Chai Jing