On November 8, the Li Siguang Geological Science Award Foundation released the Decision on Presenting the 19th Li Siguang Geological Science Award announcing the list of this year’s award recipients. Three members of the Chengdu University of Technology (CDUT) community were honored: Hou Mingcai—Member of the Standing Committee of the CDUT Party Committee, Vice President of CDUT; Li Yalin—Class of 1982 alumnus (Petroleum Geology), Party Committee Member and Chief Geologist of BGP Inc., China National Petroleum Corporation; Xu Xiangning—Class of 1999 master’s alumnus (Geotechnical Engineering), Captain of the Second Geological Team of the Sichuan Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources.
According to the Statutes of the Li Siguang Geological Science Award, and as approved at the second meeting of the 10th Li Siguang Award Committee, seven scholars received the Li Siguang Geological Science Research Award, among whom CDUT’s Prof. Hou Mingcai is one of the honorees.
Based on the same statutes and committee decision, eight scholars were awarded the Li Siguang Geological Science Field Work Award, including Li Yalin and Xu Xiangning.
The Li Siguang Geological Science Award was established to commemorate Mr. Li Siguang, an eminent scientist, educator, social activist, and distinguished geologist of China, to promote the spirit of science, and to inspire geoscience researchers nationwide. It is the highest-level award for geological science professionals in China. Since its founding in 1989, a total of 298 awardees have been selected, including 72 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Among them, 46 laureates were later elected as academicians. Today, the Li Siguang Award stands as one of the most influential honors in China’s geological community and beyond.
Profile of Hou Mingcai:
Hou Mingcai, male, of Han ethnicity, was born in October 1968 in Nanbu County, Sichuan Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in December 1999 and is a professor and doctoral supervisor. He is responsible for human resources, scientific and technological development, military–civil integration, state-owned assets, international exchange and cooperation, and museum management, and assists in overseeing academic discipline development.
His primary research and teaching fields include deep-time sedimentology, palaeogeographic reconstruction, and deep/ultra-deep oil and gas exploration. He has led nearly 100 major research projects, including National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Key Projects, General Projects, Basic Science Center cooperative projects, original exploratory projects under guideline-based NSFC programs, major national scientific and technological projects on deep-earth exploration, major national S&T projects for oil and gas, the “111 Program,” National 973 Program sub-projects, national geological survey projects, and enterprise-funded projects. His research has been published in high-impact journals such as Nature Communications, Geology, Earth-Science Reviews, Geophysical Research Letters, GSA Bulletin, Precambrian Research, Gondwana Research, Lithos, and Global and Planetary Change. He has authored over 300 academic works, including more than 120 SCI-indexed papers, and published five textbooks and monographs.
