He spent the family's savings on work such as gathering pollution data and lobbying the domestic and foreign press.

他把家庭的积蓄花在工作上，比如收集污染数据，游说国内外媒体。

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This will not be the result of foreign lobbying indeed, China is more likely to change its policy if foreign policymakers shut up.

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