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Biography

Xian Xuefu, male, Han nationality, is a native of Langzhong county, Sichuan province. He received a postgraduate degree from the Beijing Mining Institute and obtained an assistant doctorate degree from the Moscow Mining Institute.

Academician Xian Xuefu has engaged in the research of coal bed gas theories and their applications, and completed the engineering utilization of the forecasting of potentially dangerous areas with coal and gas, rules of gas existing in deep coal layers and their treatment method He has also initiated a prediction method for potentially dangerous areas of coal and gas, and the technology to increase gas release rates. He has developed the combination of mining coal protective layers and gas release to resolve technical problems of coal protective layer mining and gas release at a close distance. He established prediction theories and methods which were used in the national seventh five year plan item named "Comprehensive treatment for heavily existed coal and gas". Xian has effectively prevented the occurrence of mining coal in deep mines and high gas content under complicated conditions, solved key problems of gas absorption which were disputed internationally, and established the first complete coal layer gas seepage theory in the world, including ground electric field, ground stress field, and ground temperature field. He laid the theoretical foundation for the prediction of gas movement, collection, gush during coal layer mining, and improved gas release technology. Problems encountered in the mining of coal layers by many mines were resolved by using these theories. The technology had remarkable safety benefits, social benefits and environmental benefits, and accomplished the brainstorm item in the national eighth five year plan entitled "Research on Theories and Techniques of Halite Mining".

Xian has trained 31 doctoral and 18 masters students who have excelled in teaching, scientific research and engineering technology, 8 of whom were promoted to professors, 20 of whom were promoted to deputy professors and senior engineers, 4 of whom became doctoral advisers, 2 of whom were cross-centennial outstanding talents of the National Education Department, and one who obtained the National Outstanding Youth Fund. Academician Xian has obtained 2 national awards, and 9 first and second class awards at the provincial level. He has published more than 160 theses, 26 technical reports, and 8 monographs and translation books.