According to Guangming Daily's Weibo news, Chang Yinfo, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a well-known geologist of mineral deposits in mainland China, deputy director, chief engineer and technical adviser of the Anhui Provincial Bureau of In-situ Mining, died in Hefei on April 27, 2024 at the age of 93.
Changyin Buddha (data map source: Guangming Daily)
Since childhood, I have aspired to be a geologist
Chang Yinfo was born in Taixing, Jiangsu Province in 1931, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, there was social turmoil. After the death of his father in 1940, he lived with his mother and elderly grandmother.
According to the China Science News, Chang Yinfo knew about two local celebrities in Taixing, Ding Wenjiang and Yan Shuang, from his elders and teachers very early. Ding Wenjiang was one of the founders of the mainland's geological undertakings, leading China's early geological surveys and research, while Yan Shuang was a well-known expert in mining and petroleum engineering. Chang Yinfo's ideal at that time was to follow Ding Wenjiang and Yan Shuang, become a geologist, mine the underground resources of the motherland, and make the country rich and strong. Therefore, when filling in the college entrance examination volunteers, the first and second choices were the Department of Geology of Tsinghua University and the Department of Geology of Peking University respectively, and they were finally admitted to the former.
Studying in the Department of Geology of Tsinghua University laid a solid foundation for Chang Yinfo's lifelong career. Among the teachers who taught the professional course of Changyin Buddhism, 10 were later elected as members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
"The source of geological science is in the field"
After graduating in 1952, Chang Yinfo was assigned to the 321 Geological Team of Tongling, Anhui Province. In the first three years, he worked on almost all types of geological work: taking care of drilling rigs, core cataloging, area surveying, geological surveys and explorations, assisting team leaders in writing exploration reports, and so on. He spent nearly half of his time in the field, and successively went to Qingshi Mountain, Guichi Tongshan, Hubei Fanchang and other places to do geological survey and mapping, and grew rapidly, exercising the ability to work independently in the field.
A famous quote by Li Siguang was enshrined as a motto by Changyin Buddha: "The source of geological science is in the wilderness." Here, and only here, can real scientific questions and theories be generated!"
From 1955, Chang Yinfo was transferred to the Nonferrous Metals Office of the East China Geological Bureau to work for one year, and then returned to the field line in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, serving as the technical leader and chief engineer in the 374 team and the 321 team until the end of 1964. By the age of 30, he had a thorough understanding of the geology and landforms, various types and distribution of mineral deposits in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and accumulated rich experience, which laid a solid practical foundation for theoretical research.
Chang Yinfo sent a message to young geologists: "Field work is very important, for those recent college graduates, I actively encourage them to go to the field, at least five to ten years in the field, and then choose research institutions, schools, teaching, scientific research, but the most basic quality should be cultivated in the field." ”
Changyin Buddha (data map source: official website of the Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Chang Yin Buddha was sent to Vietnam and Albania to do geological aid work. At that time, the exploration work of the geological experts in the Lao Cai area summarized the local copper ore metallogenic law, and made great contributions to the prospecting of the main scale, and the geological report was highly recognized by the Vietnamese government, contributing to the mineral development and economic construction of Vietnam. In Albania, Chang Yinfo, as the chief engineer of the geological brigade of the Aid to Afghanistan, was responsible for the geological and technical management and guidance of the entire project in the whole region. Chang Yinfo was awarded the Order of Labor by the Albanian Government of the First Class in recognition of his contribution to the geological work in Albania.
Chang Yinfo has successively served as deputy chief engineer, chief engineer and deputy director of Anhui Provincial Geological Bureau. In 1985, at the solid mineral survey meeting held by the Ministry of Geology in Taiyuan, Chang Yinfo spoke on behalf of the Anhui Provincial Bureau of Geology. He proposed for the first time to divide the development history of the national mineral census work into three stages, and actively advocated following the geological understanding law from shallow to deep, from "point" to "surface" to "body", pointed out that under the conditions that the current technology and methods permitted, and the industrial mining capacity has made great progress, it should be prospected for deep ores, and suggested that three-dimensional geological mapping should be carried out in important metallogenic prospects.
In the 1980s, he first rejected his intention to be appointed director of the Anhui Provincial Bureau of Geology, and then politely refused to serve as the director of the Department of Geology and Mineral Resources of the Ministry of Geology, concentrating on the position of chief engineer.
"A scientist with both theoretical and practical contributions"
Chang Yin Buddha is a geologist who came out of the wilderness, and he has not written much in his life, but he is very weighty. Strong practicality has become the biggest characteristic of his academics.
In 1979 and 1980, Chang Yinfo was awarded the title of National Model Worker and Model Worker of the Ministry of Geology respectively. In 1991, he was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and in 1994, he was elected as one of the first academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
At the academician selection meeting, a senior academician in the field of geography spoke after listening to the introduction of Chang Yinfo: "Most of the members of the Faculty of the Academy of Sciences are engaged in theoretical research, and now the Faculty of Geosciences needs such scientists who have both theoretical contributions and practical ability. ”
After being elected as an academician, Chang Yinfo continued to preside over the completion of the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" scientific and technological research projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and presided over or participated in the guidance of the completion of a number of national key scientific research projects and scientific research projects in Anhui Province during the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" and "Tenth Five-Year Plan" periods. As long as there is a chance to Changyin Buddha still personally go to the wilderness, a magnifying glass must be carried with him, and he will use it to carefully examine the rocks everywhere he goes. He uses the field as a classroom and a laboratory from which to discover real problems and from where to capture clues to solve them.
In his later years, he was more interested in providing guidance and advice for geological work.
For a lifetime of geological work, Changyin Buddha called it "bonding with the mountains". "Ask Huahua to explain, listen to the voice of the moon. This is how he describes the natural world as he sees and understands, whether it is a deep mountain valley or a remote country, the natural world is full of life everywhere. Although the work in the field is arduous and even daunting to some, once you really immerse yourself in the realm of connecting yourself with nature, you will find that there is a lot of fun.
"Exploring treasure and making contributions to Tongguan Mountain, mineralization is about skarn, indifferent to fame and fortune, and the original mission is as strong. This is the summary of Chang Yinfo's geological career.
Source: China Science News, Anhui Daily, etc