In 1957, the CCP labeled JiLong Rao, a sophomore in college, a rightist and sent him to coal mines and jungles for forced labor… Just after the Cultural Revolution ended, Science Press published his book “Thermodynamics in Geochemistry” in Beijing, which became a sensation in China. From the end of 1983, he was funded by Canada’s side to serve as a visiting professor at the University of Toronto for one and a half years. Later, JiLong Rao became one of the two chief scientists of the Sino French joint research program on global environmental modeling, which was prepared since 1985. Starting in 1990, he took up a research position at Yale University funded by the U.S. NSF and the DOE. During this period, he got his doctorate from Yale University in two years and eight months. In this unique way through pure academic research work, JiLong escaped tyranny and naturalized in the United States…

JiLong Rao’s main research areas in China, Canada, and the United States include geochemical cycles and global environmental modeling, the application of thermodynamics in earth and environmental sciences, and the abundance of elements in the earth’s crust and so on. After the June 4th Massacre in 1989, he and his family naturalized in the United States. Before leaving mainland China, he was a professor at the Beijing Graduate School and the Beijing Institute of Management in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the chairman of the Department of Environmental Sciences at Qingdao University.

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