China Vitae

Biography

Yang Qi, male, Han nationality, is a native of Penglai, Shandong Province. He graduated from Kunming National Southwest Associated University in 1943 and did postgraduate work at Beijing University in 1948.

In 1952, Yang was responsible for building the 1st coalfield geology specialty of China at the Beijing College of Geoscience. This was devoted to the study of geologic factors for coal forming during the Late Paleozoic in northern China and the formation of a coal zone of enrichment, the coal forming conditions and coal resources surveying in Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan and Guizhou Provinces, the objectionable impurities in coal and the environment impact, coal forming mechanism, and proposed new theories about the coal deposition system, coal forming mode and law of Yu County during the late Paleozoic era.

With regard to coal deposition in China belonging to "coal levels on the high side", Yang put forward the theory of multi-stage evolvement and multiple heat sources superimposed metamorphism and regional magma thermal metamorphism. He demonstrated that the "coal level on the high side" is the result of superimposed metamorphism through 3 evolvement stages of coal. He also clarified the distribution law of coal level in China from the coal forming, and improved the geologic research level of coal fields in China.

Yang is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.