Hou was born in a poor family when he was a child, but he still loved learning. Hou was born in a scholarly family, so he was named after him, meaning that he would do more good deeds after becoming the top scholar, but he didn't expect his family to fall. After two years of study, he was forced to drop out of school to help his family. Hou Debang was influenced by the allusion of stealing wall light since he was a child. Even though he dropped out of school, he didn't give up studying. He studied all the time, even at work, and even left an allusion to trailer learning.
Hou met a person who changed his life: his aunt, who might only do farm work all his life, was moved by his spirit of loving learning, so she sponsored him to study at Huaying College in Fuzhou. Also in Fuzhou Academy, Hou saw foreigners holding whips at the dock to supervise China people to do coolies, and it was raining heavily. This scene dealt a fatal blow to Hou's mind and strengthened his desire to serve the motherland.
After many difficulties, Hou successfully developed a method for producing soda ash. After the First World War, foreign capitalists entered China in succession, especially the British bourgeoisie. Because they mastered the production method of soda ash, they raised the price of soda ash several times. China had no choice but to eat this YaBaKui, but Hou refused the generous treatment from abroad and chose to return to China, where the scientific research environment was backward. He has no other idea except not to let his motherland be bullied. Hou joined Yongli Alkali Industry Company, the father of modern chemical industry in China, and explored the method of alkali production from scratch, gradually breaking through some production process problems such as process design, material selection, equipment selection and installation. Finally, he successfully developed China's own high-quality soda ash, breaking the monopoly of foreign capitalism on soda. Hou could have sold the patent to the country, but he didn't do it because he said? All my inventions belong to my motherland. ?