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Biography

Wang Hongzhen, male, Han nationality, is a native of Chanchu, Shandong Province. He graduated from Peking University in 1939 and obtained a doctorate degree from Cambridge University in 1947.

A professor at the China University of Geosciences, Wang has conducted research in numerous fields, including paleontology, stratigraphy, paleogeography, Precambrian geology, geotectology, and geologic history. His academic contributions include establishing a systematic classification and evolution of the Tetracoral period. During the 1980s, he proposed a division of Chinese tectonic units and terminology.

Wang's publications include "Chinese Paleographic Maps" – which described the crust structure of China as well as the evolution and development of paleography. In the 1990s, while studying sequence stratigraphy and paleocontinental reconstruction, he proposed a theory which described the rhythm of the earth as universal and focused on the division of tectonic units of global continental basements.

He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.