CAS Member XU Yigang Receives Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Earth Sciences Progress
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The winners of the 2025 Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Awards were announced in Beijing on February 2, 2026. Prof. XU Yigang, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), received the 2025 Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in Earth Sciences.
A total of 54 laureates were selected for the foundation's 2025 awards, comprising 32 recipients of the Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress and 22 recipients of the Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation. The Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress honors scientists and researchers who have achieved major inventions, discoveries, or technological breakthroughs in specific disciplines, with particularly distinguished contributions in recent years. The winning projects span disciplines including life sciences, mathematical and physical sciences, and engineering and technology.
A CAS member and researcher at the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, CAS, Prof. XU has long been engaged in research on mantle petrology, geochemistry, and deep geodynamics. He has obtained innovative findings on the destruction of the North China Craton, the Emeishan large igneous province and mantle plume, the East Asian big mantle wedge, as well as studies on lunar soil samples from the Chang'e-5 and Chang'e-6 missions.
Established in 1994 with donations from patriotic Hong Kong financiers Ho Sin-hang, Leung Kau-kui, Ho Tim, and Lee Quo-wei, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation aims to reward scientists who have made outstanding contributions to China's scientific and technological advancement and support the country's modernization drive.
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