Hou Xianglin is a senior advisor of the China Natural Petroleum Corporation, senior advisor of the China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, honorary council chairman of the Chinese Petroleum Society, honorary chairman of the China National Committee for the World Petroleum Congress, and a member of both CAS and CAE.
Hou Xianglin graduated from the Department of Chemistry of the Yenching University (Beijing) in 1935. In December 1944, he went to the United States to study at his own expense, and got the doctor’s degree in 1948.
Since his return to China in 1950, he has successively served as professor of the Department of Chemistry and concurrently research fellow of the Fuel Research Office of Tsinghua University; research fellow and acting section director of the Dalian Petroleum Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; chief engineer of the Oil Refining Department of the Petroleum Administration; deputy director of the Production and Technology Division of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry; vice-president and president of the Research Institute of Petroleum; vice-president, acting president and acting secretary of the Party Committee of the Research Institute of Petroleum Processing; vice-minister of Petroleum Industry and concurrently president of the Research Institute of Petroleum Processing; chairman of the council of the Chinese Petroleum Society; chief advisor and vice-chairman of the Technology and Economy Advisory Committee of the China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation; vice-chairman and senior advisor of the Technology Committee of the China Natural Petroleum Corporation; chairman of the China National Committee for the World Petroleum Congress; standing member of the fifth, sixth and seventh CPPCC National Committee; member of the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council; vice-chairman of the Invention Selection Committee of the State Science and Technology Commission; and member of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
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