Regarding Beijing's feelings, Hou Renzhi claimed that "the more you know, the stronger your love will be".
Hou Renzhi, known as "Living Beijing", has revealed some key issues such as the origin of Beijing city, the transfer of urban sites, the characteristics of urban development and its objective laws from the perspective of modern geography. Its academic value goes beyond the scope of geographical science and becomes an important reference for Beijing's old city reconstruction and urban master planning and construction.
His main works include The Origin of Tianjin Settlements, Theory and Practice of Historical Geography, Historical Beijing City, Bufangji, and Historical Atlas of Beijing as the chief editor.
Among them, Beijing in History, China Youth Publishing House, 1962, 1 edition, 1980, 2nd edition.
Attachment: Hou Renzhi (191.12.06 ~ 2013.10.22), male,19/kloc-0
China famous historical geographer, academician of China Academy of Sciences.
1940 graduated from yenching university, and 1949 received his doctorate from the University of Liverpool.
From 65438 to 0952, he taught in the Department of Geology and Geography of Peking University, and served as the dean and deputy provost of the Department of Geology and Geography of Peking University.
1980 was elected as an academician of the Geology Department of China Academy of Sciences.
He used to be a professor and doctoral supervisor of Peking University Institute of Urban and Environmental Sciences.
1984 was awarded the title of "Honorary Doctor of Science" by the University of Liverpool.
1999 won the Science and Technology Achievement Award of Heliang Lihao Foundation.
In the same year, in recognition of Hou Renzhi's outstanding contribution in the field of historical geography, the American Geographical Society awarded him the George Davidson Medal, and Hou Renzhi became the sixth famous scientist in the world to receive this honor.
[1] 1950 published a discussion on the course "Evolutionary Geography of China", which theoretically clarified for the first time the differences between China's evolutionary geography and historical geography, as well as the nature and tasks of historical geography, and laid a theoretical foundation for the establishment of modern historical geography in China.
From 65438 to 0952, Hou Renzhi officially opened the first "Historical Geography" major in China in Peking University.
[2] Editor-in-chief has The Atlas of Beijing History and The Collected Works of Hou Renzhi.
From 65438 to 0984, Hou Renzhi came into contact with the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage while giving lectures at Cornell University in the United States, and thought that it was urgent for China to join the Convention.
Immediately after his return to China, he drafted a proposal that China should join the Convention as a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which was adopted by the country, and China finally became a party to the World Heritage Convention.
Academician Hou Renzhi is known as "the first person to apply for World Heritage in China".
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