Mian-ping Zheng, Ph. D.
R & D Center of Saline Lakes and Epithermal Deposits
Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
Beijing, China 100037l

I. Education and Experience

Mian-ping Zheng graduated from the Department of Geology, Nanjing University in 1956, and took postgraduate courses in salt mineral deposits under the direction of Prof. C. T. Yuan (member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) at Beijing College of Geology from 1957 to 1960, when he began to carry out research on saline sediments and geochemistry of Qaidam Salt Lake of Qinghai Province and Bangkog Lake of Tibet, China. He has undertaken research on comprehensive resources and ancient saline mineral deposits of salt lakes in China for 46 years. Zheng was promoted to research professor in 1987 and elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995. Now he is director of the R & D Center of Saline Lakes and Epithermal Deposits and Executive member of the Standing Committee of the Research Society of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. He is winners of the first-class national award of the State Scientific and Technological Progress Prize of China and the Prize o! f Engineering Science and Technology of China.

II. Five Representative Publications

1. Zheng Mianping, Liu Wengao, Xiang Jun and Jiang Zhongti. 1983. On saline lakes in Tibet, China. Acta Geologica Sinica, 57(2): 184-194.

 2. Zheng Mianping, Qi Wen, Wu Yushu and Liu Junying, 1992. Preliminary study on sedimentary environment of the Lop Nur salt lake and its prospect for potassium. Chinese Science Bulletin, 37(11): 935-939.

 3. Zheng Mianping, Liu Wengao and Xiang Jun, 1985. The discovery of halophilic algae and halobacteria at Zabuye salt lake, Tibet and preliminary study on the geoecology. Acta Geologica Sinica, 59(2): 162-171.

 4. Zheng Mianping, 1997. An Introduction to Saline Lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 294p.

 5. Zheng Mianping, 2001. On salinology. Hydrobiologia, 466:339-347.

III. Candidate’s Statement

I have participated in three international conferences on salt lake research (5th, 6th and 7th). In 1994, I hosted the 6th International Symposium on Inland Saline Lakes in close cooperation with the colleagues of the international salt lake community. In the symposium I was selected Vice-President of International Society of Saline Lake (now renamed ISSLR) and served as Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Symposium. I co-edited with Profs. B. Williams and S. H. Hurlbert the Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Inland Saline Lakes and was selected member-at-large at the 7th conference. I look forward to promoting the goals of our society and development of salt lake science and salt lake science and serving ISSLR’s members in the future.

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