1996 On August 4, 1996, the atmosphere in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing was warm. The International Geological Conference, known as the "Olympic" event, which is known as the international geology community, was held in my country for the first time. More than 6,000 geological scientists from 101 countries and regions around the world gathered together.
This conference also selected the "Spandyarov Award" the highest award in international geology, and the winner is one of the founders of my country's sedimentary science, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences Liu Baojun . He is also the first Chinese scientist to win this honor in a century.
In fact, this is neither the first time Liu Baojun is famous at home and abroad, nor is it the precedent for him to set a "first" award.
As a leader of the International Federation of Geoscience and the chairman of the China Committee of the Global Sedimentary Geology Program, he has attended many international academic conferences, organized and participated in international global sedimentary geology research, and actively introduced the latest foreign cutting-edge information, research methods and results to the country.
For more than 60 years, Liu Baojun has achieved fruitful results in sedimentary dynamics, lithophagogy, paleogeography, stratified ore deposits, diagenetic ore formation, global change, basin analysis, etc., published more than 120 papers, published 20 monographs of various types, and won the first highest honorary award in the Chinese geology community in 1989 " Li Siguang Geological Science Award ".
The theory of "post-semination and mineralization" proposed by him is ahead of the international academic community; combined with sedimentary research, the rare "carbonate storm rock" was discovered; it pioneered the study of mineralization in my country using the global geological event perspective; it led the drawing of the most systematic and detailed lithophagocytic paleogeographic map of my country to date; it proposed the "unified geological field" theory, introducing the concept of global change into the field of geology research in my country for the first time; editing the first batch of professional sedimentary petrochemical monographs such as "Sedimentary Petology" in my country, which played a key role in promoting the development of my country's geology, petroleum, coalfield and metallurgy industries.
Liu Baojun’s old photos of field science investigation
Support Liu Baojun has been running among the mountains and fields for decades, and has achieved fruitful results in the difficult geological industry, in addition to his persistent love for earth science, the deeper level is his deep love for the motherland!
Born in an educational family, he has been influenced by him since childhood, loves traditional culture, worships scientists and masters of Chinese studies, and has set ambition to serve the country scientifically since childhood. "We must care about China's future. Everyone is thinking about where to devote themselves to saving the country, either to do industry or learn technology."
handed over itself to the country and obeyed the arrangements of the motherland. "I am very proud to say that many of my choices are to follow the original intention."
The first time he devoted himself to the motherland was that when he graduated from Nankai Middle School, Liu Baojun, who was already admitted to the Department of Chemistry at Yenching University, received a letter from a senior in the Department of Geology at Tsinghua University.
"China has 9.6 million square kilometers of land, and it needs 500 million people... The country needs geological talents!"
Faced with the needs of the country and the call of the times, Liu Baojun happily followed it.
1953 Liu Baojun (middle in the front row) took a photo with his college classmates
1953, after graduation, Liu Baojun was assigned to the Northwest to look for minerals. He slept in the wild all year round. His living and working conditions were extremely difficult, and the water everyone drank was bitter. He later recalled: "I didn't think about how bad the conditions were, I just felt that my motherland needed me." In the early 1960s, the research on sedimentary theory entered a new stage of development. Liu Baojun took the initiative to introduce this discipline into China and translated many professional works, becoming a pioneer in introducing cutting-edge international sedimentary theory into my country's academic circles.
1971, Liu Baojun led a team to Yunnan Dianzhong Sandstone Copper Mine to carry out geological prospecting work. After many days of investigation, he bravely questioned the results of the mineralization paleoenvironment and the causes of ore deposits formed based on experience. In order to prove his opinion, he went out for field visits during the day and consulted domestic and foreign information at night.Based on collecting multiple ores, studying ore composition, and mastering first-hand information on , new ideas on the paleoenological environment and the conclusions of the ore deposits are proposed. This new theory was quickly promoted nationwide, and played a great role in the detection of lead, zinc, uranium and other minerals.
"Sedimentary Petology" edited by him has become a pioneering monograph on geological sedimentary in China. It is of great significance to many industries such as geology, petroleum, coal, metallurgy, etc. It is still one of the classic textbooks for the cultivation of sedimentary talents. He led the most systematic and detailed lithophago paleogeographic map collection in southern my country to date, and is praised by foreign scholars as the culmination of lithophago paleogeographic research.
After entering the 1990s, he guided domestic sedimentary geologists to place research on global changes in an important position and became a leader in my country's deep participation in international global sedimentary geology research.
Liu Baojun has been seeking development for my country's geology cause all his life, and has been working hard to enhance China's discourse on sedimentary geology science internationally. Liu Baojun has never stopped his pace. He is enthusiastic about resource and environmental protection, geological science popularization and other causes, and contributes his light and heat in another way...
