"First of all, thank you very much to the government for recognizing this honorary title when I am about to retire!" This is the first sentence zhou Houxiang said to reporters, and his honor is to be awarded the 2020 expert who enjoys the special government allowance of the State Council.
These words sounded incomparably real from Zhou Houxiang's mouth, and they were also a little sad. After graduating from university in 1988, he plunged into the cause of geology and mineral exploration, twice won the Top Ten Mineral Prospecting Achievement Award of the Geological Society of China, was awarded the senior engineer of the researcher level in 2009, and is now the deputy director of the Geological Environment Monitoring Department of the Hunan Provincial Natural Resources Affairs Center.
Don't think it's bitter
"Phi Xing Dai Yue" and "Meal Wind and Drink Dew" are common words used to describe the experience and life of geological people. In Zhou Houxiang's recollection, their meaning is very specific.
When he joined the Loudi 418 team, he often went out at six or seven o'clock in the morning with dry food such as steamed buns and hair cakes, and dragged more than two kilograms of hiking boots and about 30 kilograms of samples to the residence at night.
"Every summer and autumn, this kind of field work is basically required, and there is no rest day." Zhou Houxiang said, "Because the weather is generally suitable for entering the mountains at this time, the geological and mineral exploration work must also seize the time." ”
"A small mountain, looking at the altitude of no more than 1,000 meters, but we cut the roads that no one had ever walked, climbed the uneven rocks, and snaked up to 4.5 kilometers, spending two and a half hours." Zhou Houxiang told reporters that he once worked on a project with 15 colleagues in Changning, and in 15 days, each of them could eat 1 kilogram of meat in the morning and evening, but the average weight loss per person was 6 kilograms. His own height was 165 centimeters, and his weight fluctuated around 100 pounds for a long time.
Months, half a year without home, ten days and half a month and another place, communication and communication to write a letter are difficult to maintain, in the 80s of the last century, college students, professional and technical personnel Zhou Houxiang over 30 years old has not been able to start a family. Later, it was not easy to get a blind date opportunity, black and thin, he was also directly described by the sister of the blind date as "poor acid".
"For this reason, I often joke that my wife 'thought she had found a garbage stock, but finally found out that it was a high-performing stock.'" Zhou Houxiang's self-confidence and optimism come from his beloved geological and mineral exploration career.
Just like he said that the grassroots work experience is very hard, but he emphasizes that he is a child of a peasant family who can bear it, and his body can recover when he is tired. Moreover, he enjoys the joy of overcoming difficulties, the smoothness of the completion of the project, and the beautiful scenery that has been seen inaccessible through the mountains.
In 2001, he was approved as a national geopark, and Zhou Houxiang said that in 1989, he had experienced magical scenery such as Chili Peak and whale sea for geological and mineral exploration. Several members of their team also worked together to edit and publish a magazine called "Mountain Soul", one of the important roles was to record their perceptions and emotions about these beautiful views in the form of poetry and other forms.
"Do a line, love a line." Zhou Houxiang said, "The former, the inherent characteristics of the industry, can not change itself; The latter, how to love deeply, how to find happiness, but they can completely decide. ”
Don't think of cattle
For the first time, the unit-superunit metallogenic exclusivity theory was used to summarize the spatial evolution of the combined magma hydrothermal deposit type in this area, and large-scale tin deposits were found in the large granite foundations of Hunan.
For the first time, he innovatively proposed the understanding that the multi-island reef control mine in the post-arc basin, reef limestone and sand limestone can contain ore, and successfully predicted and guided the lead and zinc mine survey in the brain slope mining area of Huayuan County to make a major breakthrough.
For the first time, he proposed a new theory of the metallogenicity of niobium tantalum rare deposits jointly controlled by dynamic metamorphic belt and pegmatocyanization, successfully guided the survey of niobium tantalum ore in the Renli mining area of Pingjiang County, and made a major breakthrough in finding super-large tantalum ore for the first time in Hunan.
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Outsiders can't understand this kind of "first", but three ministerial awards, two provincial awards, two listed in the Top Ten Mineral Prospecting Achievement Awards of the Geological Society of China, and have been hired as experts in the review of mineral resource reserves of the Ministry of Natural Resources, experts of the China Geological Survey, experts in the review of mineral resources reserves in Hunan Province, experts in the expert database of geological exploration project management in Hunan Province, core experts of the Hunan Provincial Natural Resources Consulting and Research Committee, and chief experts in the breakthrough of the Golden Belt of Hunan Province. It can be seen that Zhou Houxiang, who has never really left the geological and mineral exploration industry for more than 30 years, is undoubtedly a "big bull" in the industry.
However, in the face of reporters, "Please recall your first prospecting?" Can you cite the toughest prospecting story you've ever experienced?" And the most rewarding prospecting story?" A series of questions, Zhou Houxiang said that there is some confusion.
He said that doing a good job in geological and mineral exploration requires theoretical accumulation and innovation, and even more needs a lot of practical experience from the eyes, feet and predecessors, including the old farmers in the deep mountains, and the first two years of his work were learned from the master. This is also a fine tradition of the geological and mineral exploration industry, and he especially thanked the former masters for their unreserved "passing on the help".
In 1999, in Dupangling, Daoxian County, Zhou Houxiang and his team of 3 people set off at 3 a.m. in order to climb the peak with a relative height difference of 1500 meters, walking nearly 60 kilometers round trip a day, and two people were tired and nosebleeds when they came down the mountain. "But compared to a colleague who set up a tent in the mountains because it was difficult to travel back and forth for a day, but was almost washed away by a torrential torrent caused by a downpour, I felt that the ones I experienced were not the 'hardest'."
"Every prospecting is a great effort, and if you can get the expected results, you have a great sense of accomplishment." But just as we found large-scale tin deposits in Changning, which also won provincial awards and bureau awards, now I miss the years when more than a dozen people were tired every night to climb up the chase bunk and go to sleep, get up in the morning and open the futon, and the chase bunk immediately became a dining table and a workbench. Zhou Houxiang said.
Not high
On the day of the reporter's interview, a young man came to Zhou Houxiang for consultation. He was one of his talented subordinates, and later found other places to develop.
"My former college classmates, including myself, are probably only two or three people still doing geological and mineral exploration work. Today's young people want to jump out of this circle for development, I can't say support, but I can understand. "Zhou Houxiang told reporters that the geological exploration industry has a long history, those dings, swords, etc. in ancient times are from copper and other metal minerals, and now everyone is talking about the hotly discussed high-crystalline silicon, lithium battery basic contribution is also their prospector, and even Australian iron ore can also have a major impact on a country, a regional economy, security strategy." However, unfortunately, there are often people in society who associate 'prospecting for minerals - mining - destroying the environment', and then look at it differently, and the relevant parties do not know enough about this industrial raw materials and strategic resources, and do not pay enough attention to it. ”
In 2005, he came to Changsha in the form of talent introduction, served as the technical leader of the Geological Exploration Department of the Hunan Provincial Institute of Land and Resources Planning (Hunan Academy of Geological Sciences), and began to preside over the management of geological exploration technology in the province by 2008, and Zhou Houxiang had a deeper understanding and experience of the policy orientation of the national geological exploration industry and the support of various departments at all levels for the geological exploration industry.
He said that geological and mineral exploration work can also make great achievements in the cause of rural revitalization. After more than 10 years of poverty alleviation designated by the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Provincial Land and Resources Department, Xintian County was found to have 998 square kilometers of soil containing the essential micronutrient selenium in the 1,022 square kilometers of land in the county; The area of strontium-rich mineral water field is 177 square kilometers, and the average content of strontium element in groundwater is 1.42 mg/l, which is 7.1 times the national limit of strontium element for drinking natural mineral water. In recent years, the county has focused on building a high-end product base of selenium strontium and a characteristic agricultural industry of strontium strontium, and the effect of poverty alleviation is very obvious. "The price of local rice has increased by 10 to 30 times!" Zhou Houxiang said proudly that this has provided a large number of new ways of thinking and high-quality resources for our province to promote the restructuring of the agricultural industry and promote industrial poverty alleviation.
"We are also committed to continuing to exert efforts in the exploration, development and utilization of mineral resources, the rectification of mining order, industrial structure adjustment, environmental protection and restoration through in-depth investigation and scientific planning." Zhou Houxiang called on the relevant regulatory departments to take full responsibility, mine integration and green mine construction are not dreams, and the cause of geological and mineral exploration deserves great attention.