Southwestern Forestry University has academicians.
The Chinese Academy of Engineering announced the list of academicians elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2023. Professor Du Guanben of Southwest Forestry University was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Du Guanben, Han nationality, born in September 1963, Ph.D., professor, doctoral supervisor, newly elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2023. Former Vice President of Southwest Forestry University, current member of the Standing Committee of the 14th Yunnan Provincial People’s Congress, Deputy Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Kuomintang, Director of the International Joint Research Center for Biomass Materials, and National and Local Joint Project on Efficient Utilization Technology of Forestry Biomass Resources Director of the Research Center and Director of the Key Laboratory of Southwest Mountain Forest Resource Conservation and Utilization of the Ministry of Education.
Academician and executive director of the International Academy of Wood Sciences, selected into the National Hundred Thousand Talents Project and awarded the honorary title of National Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions, and enjoys special government allowances from the State Council.
Published more than 500 research papers and obtained more than 80 authorized invention patents. He has won 16 science and technology awards at the provincial and ministerial levels and above, including 2 second prizes for the National Science and Technology Progress Award as the first completer, and 5 first prizes for the provincial and ministerial science and technology awards. In 2021, he won the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Innovation Award. In 2023, he won the National Innovation Award and the Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Award.
Professor Du Guanben’s scientific and technological innovation work is oriented to the main economic battlefield. Since 1985, he has been committed to cutting-edge technological innovation in the artificial board industry, especially the particleboard industry. He has led the way in the creation of new products and new technology research and development through school-enterprise cooperation. The overall manufacturing level of my country's particleboard industry has improved and entered the international leading ranks, making outstanding contributions to the rapid development of my country's particleboard industry and customized home furnishing industry.