HOU Li’an, an expert in environmental engineering, is the director of the Institute of Logistics Science and Technology of the Rocket Army and a professor of Tongji University. In 2006, he obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Chemical Defense. He was elected member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2009. He is one of the famous pioneers for the prevention and control technology against special pollution in China. During the basic research, project design, and technical management in environmental science and engineering for several decades, he initiated and successfully developed a set of advanced techniques and serial equipment to safeguard water security, the domestic sewage treatment for the scattered point source, and air purification for human settlements. He has made several great breakthroughs and significantly creative achievements in past years. He has 31 patents and published more than 300 papers and six books.

He has won 1 First Prize, 3 Second Prizes, and 2 Third Prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 26 science and technology progress awards, and teaching achievement awards of the military and provincial and ministerial levels. He was awarded the First Class Military Merit once and the Third Class Military Merit four times. Enjoying special government subsidies, he has won the "Qiushi" Outstanding Youth Award of the China Association for Science and Technology, the 1st Outstanding Professional and Technical Talents Award of the PLA, the titles of National Advanced Worker for Science Popularization, and the National Outstanding Scientific And Technological Worker.

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