Mr.Fan, the principal of NPO, is the founder of Green Mapmaker Organization. He got to know the French Green Mapmaker Organization when he took part in Tour de France in July 2007.He was so surprised there are flea markets, festivals and even the Wine Festivals to be held by the villages, which are all marked in the Green Map. Any environmental elements are all vividly illustrated before the tourists. So Mr. Fan thought what would be in the Shenzhen Green Map. The feeling of mystery and unknown propel him to make a Shenzhen Green Map. Mr. Fan recruited a group of volunteers by the internet and persuade bicycle clubs, construction companies and the traveling sights companies to sponsor the project and then started the drawing of the Green Map.
Shenzhen is an emigration city. The NPO and the Green Map volunteers realized that though many people consider Shenzhen is a money-city there are still many people are eager to find goodness. The memorable matters, sits and scenarios are the connections between Shenzhen and us. We hope to hackle people’s memory for the Shenzhen city by which to find the relative relationship between the city and themselves. We gather the green labels the emigration city by riding bicycles, using the most original photos, maps and simple statement to tell their personal city’s memories.
We hope to propel people’s interests of observing green resources abound them by charts to make people care about variances of the environment and lead a amicable method to live. So the Shenzhen Green Map is not a simple environmental map and the drawing of Green Map is not the patent of environmentalists. Green means intimity and amicability. The Green Map is with all the sits, grasslands.