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Jesang Sonam Dargye (Tibetan: བསོད་ནམས་དར་རྒྱས, Wylie: Bsod nams dar rgyas; Chinese: 杰桑·索南达杰; pinyin: Jié sāng·Suǒ nán dá jié, 1954 – 18 January 1994), a native of Suojia Township, Zhiduo County, Yushu Prefecture, Qinghai Province, was an ethnic Tibetan, a member of the Chinese Communist Party, and a 1974 graduate of the Qinghai Nationalities Institute. He previously served as the Party Secretary of Suojia Township and Deputy Party Secretary of Zhiduo County. In 1992, he promoted the establishment of the Western Working Committee of the Zhiduo County Party Committee (referred to as the "Western Working Committee") and served as its secretary, combatting illegal gold mining and poaching endangered Tibetan antelope (chiru) in the Hoh Xil no-man's land to protect national resources. On January 8, 1994, Sonam Dargye led the Western Working Committee on their twelfth patrol into the Hoh Xil no-man's land. Ten days later, he was shot and killed while escorting armed poachers who had been hunting Tibetan antelopes. In November 1996, the National Environmental Protection Agency and the Ministry of Forestry jointly awarded him the title of "Environmental Defender." On the morning of December 18, 2018, at the conference celebrating the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening up, 100 individuals, including Jesang Sonam Dargye, the "pioneer of ecological and environmental protection in Hoh Xil and Sanjiangyuan," were awarded the title of "Reform Pioneer" by the Central Committee of the CCP.