1. Hou Debang (1890-1974), a native of Fuzhou, a chemical industry expert and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He once served as Vice Minister of the Ministry of Chemical Industry and Vice Chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology.
2. At the beginning of this century, my country relied entirely on imported soda ash. In order to establish a national alkali production industry, Hou Debang decided to come back to serve the motherland in 1921. Under his technical guidance, in the 1920s, he guided the establishment of Asia's largest alkali plant, Tianjin Tanggu Soda Plant, which produced "Red Triangle" brand soda ash. In 1926, "Red Triangle" participated in the International Exposition held in Philadelphia, USA, and won the highest honor - the Gold Medal. Originally, Hou Debang could sell the patent and obtain high remuneration, but to people's expectation, he wrote the world's first monograph on soda ash production, "Soda Ash Manufacturing", making the secrets of soda ash production technology public to the world, allowing Chinese and foreign chemical scholars to ***Enjoy. In 1937, Hou Debang presided over the construction of the world-class Nanjing Ammonium Sulfate Plant of Yongli Chemical Industry Company, ushering in a new era of my country's fertilizer industry. In 1943, he took the lead in completing the joint alkali production process of continuously producing soda ash and ammonium chloride in the laboratory. It was known as the "Hou's alkali production method" by the world. It opened up a new way for the world's alkali production technology and received great attention from the international academic community. , and caused a strong response. Since then, China's alkali chemical industry has jumped onto the world stage.