Morris L. BIAN
Weng Wenhao was a leading figure in China’s development of geological studies—as a student, researcher, teacher and administrator. As director of the National Resources Commission in the mid-1930s he oversaw the planning of heavy industrial reconstruction and the creation of state-run national defense industries; after the outbreak of war in 1937 he became one of China’s leading statesman.
Weng Wenhao was among China’s first geologists and a leading statesman during the
