Pan Yue

Pan Yue (Chinese潘岳, Pinyin Pan Yue, * April 1960 in the province of Jiangsu, China) is a Chinese politician and Vice- Minister of the Environment of the People's Republic of China.

Pan was first employed from 1976 to 1982 in the People's Liberation Army and then worked as a journalist for various newspapers. In 1988 he was appointed to the Commission of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation from 1994 to 1998 he was deputy head of the Commission for the control and management of state-owned assets. During this time he continued to work as a journalist, mostly with the fields of technology and the environment.

In 2003 he was appointed by the party leadership of the Communist Party of China as vice director of the Ministry of Environment ( State Environmental Protection Administration, SEPA) named.

In the West caused a stir Pan's attitude, the social problems and environmental degradation in China to discuss openly. He is committed to ensuring that in China a "green GDP " is calculated, where the environmental damage from the value of the nominal gross domestic product will be deducted again. In January 2005, he stopped the construction of 30 major projects that had bypassed an environmental audit. In 2010 he was honored along with Fu Qiping the Ramon Magsaysay Award -.

Pan is the daughter of Liu Huaqing, a former Vice President of the Central Military Commission, married.