China Vitae

Biography

Song Zhenqi, male, Han nationality, is a native of Hanyang, Hubei Province. He graduated from the Coal Excavation Department of Beijing Mining College in 1957 and is an expert on mine pressure and terrain control.

After graduating from college, Song served as a professor at Shandong Mining College and later was superintendent at the Mine Pressure Research Institute. He set up mine pressure theory and research method system for terrain movement. This theory system moved China's excavating site mine pressure research from qualitative to quantitative research. His mining studies shifted coal mine site mine pressure and terrain control from relying on statistical empirical decision to quantitative development state by pinpointing specific coal layer conditions.

Song directed research items for more than two dozen national key projects during the 6th Five-Year Plan and the 7th Five-Year Plan period. He created the Dynamic Observation Research Method of Pit Terrance and developed monitoring measures such as ceiling board dynamic instrument, computer system and software, ceiling board prediction, forecast and ceiling board control.

In 1991, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.