About Runqiu Huang’s work
From December 1998 to June 1999, Runqiu Huang held a Croucher Visitorship at the University of Hong Kong. At the time, Huang was based at Chengdu University of Technology.
Biography
Runqiu Huang graduated from Chengdu Institute of Geology with a major in engineering geology, and served as a lecturer in the Department of Hydrological and Engineering Geology of Chengdu Institute of Geology, Assistant to the Dean and Vice President of Chengdu University of Technology. In December 2007, he was appointed as a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of Jiusan Society and the Chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee. In 2014, he was elected vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Sichuan Provincial People's Congress].
In March 2016, he was appointed Vice Minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China. Huang's research interests include the stability evaluation of high-slope slopes of large-scale engineering rocks and the prediction and prevention of geological disasters caused by landslides. He has presided over and undertaken more than 20 major research plans, key projects, national scientific and technological research projects and major projects of ministries and commissions of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.