Nanjing’s finless porpoises have been much in the news of late; their numbers on a steady rise and them featured extensively in last week’s Yangtze Culture Forum held in our own fine City. But bizarrely, they also have to thank pollution for part of their fame.
南京的江豚最近成为新闻焦点。他们的人数正在稳步上升，并在上周在我们美丽的城市举行的长江文化论坛上得到广泛关注。但奇怪的是，他们的名气也部分归功于污染。
That was the takeaway to emerge on 26 November, when the Yangtze Finless Porpoise Science & Education Centre organised over 20 students to carry out its “Smiling Angel” action.
这是11月26日，长江江豚科教中心组织20多名学生开展“微笑天使”行动时得出的结论。
The Yangtze River finless porpoise is called a “smiling angel” on account of its perpetual grin. But what of the connection to environmental pollution? For that, we need refer to Nanjing Sembcorp Water Co. Ltd., that was handed, after almost endless legal deliberation, fines totalling ¥520 million in 2019.
长江江豚因其永远咧着嘴笑而被称为“微笑天使”。但与环境污染有什么关系呢？为此，我们需要参考南京胜科水务有限公司，该公司在经过几乎无休无止的法律审议后，于2019年被处以总计5.2亿元人民币的罚款。
That particular company was found to have, between 2014 to 2017, illegally discharged 280,000 cubic metres of high-concentration wastewater, over 4,300 tonnes of sludge and 54 tonnes of hazardous waste, into the Yangtze River.
该公司被发现在2014年至2017年期间向长江非法排放高浓度废水28万立方米、污泥4300多吨、危险废物54吨。
Going back and forward between courts in both Nanjing’s Gulou and Xuanwu districts, Sembcorp’s General Manager, surnamed Zheng, and 12 others, were convicted of committing environmental-pollution crimes and sentenced to fixed-term imprisonments ranging from 1-6 years.
往返于南京鼓楼区和宣武区法院，胜科总经理郑某等12人被判犯有环境污染罪，被判处1年至6年不等的有期徒刑。
We often hear of such cases and this publication has reported on many thereof. But much less well known is the answer to the basic question; what happens to all the money?
我们经常听说这样的案例，本刊也报道了很多这样的案例。但基本问题的答案却鲜为人知；所有的钱怎么办？
That’s where the specific wording in the verdict comes in. In addition to enormous amounts in compensation, the Xuanwu Court decreed that there be a penalty imposed of “¥233 million [to be put to use] in investment in alternative-restoration projects”.
这就是判决书中的具体措辞。除了巨额赔偿外，宣武法院还裁定处以“替代修复项目投资2.33亿元人民币”的罚款。
It therefore came to be that such monies played an active role in the construction of the Yangtze Finless Porpoise Science & Education Centre, as Nanjing Daily reports.
据《南京日报》报道，这些资金对长江江豚科教中心的建设发挥了积极作用。
The irony is of course not lost; that it take the mindless and wonton destruction of our ecology to assist in bringing one of the Yangtze’s most-beloved inhabitants back from the brink of extinction.
当然，其中的讽刺意味并没有消失。只有对我们的生态环境进行无意识和无意识的破坏，才能帮助长江中最受喜爱的居民之一从灭绝的边缘恢复过来。
