Hou Guangjiong studied hard since he was a child, and he was thoughtful and eager for knowledge. He was cautious in his words and deeds and devoted himself to research. During his study at school, he has been excellent in academic performance, solid in foreign languages and won awards. Hou Guangjiong has extensive knowledge and profound academic attainments, but he is never satisfied. He never gives up learning knowledge and understands the latest scientific and technological trends at home and abroad. In the process of writing, every paper and monograph of his has been carefully selected and scrutinized. For example, when he compiled Essays on Agricultural Soils in China, he revised the classification department of agricultural soils in China 14 times. Although Hou Guangjiong's English is very good, his English works are often checked by professional English teachers for fear of omission.

In teaching, he insists on teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, heuristic teaching, and pays attention to guiding students to think independently, whether as undergraduates, master students or doctoral students, or as agricultural leading cadres, agronomists and farmers' technical training courses; During the field trip, students are required to walk, observe, record and think. When soil factors change, it is necessary to observe and discuss the soil profile. After the field work every day, we should also organize students to exchange and comment on the learning experience of the day and keep a diary. In scientific research, he always adhered to the direction of soil science serving agricultural production, carried forward the style of integrating theory with practice, and unswervingly followed the correct road of combining workers and peasants. He not only pays attention to imparting the latest scientific and technological knowledge to students, but also attaches great importance to students' ideological and moral education. He often educates students to love the party, love the people, learn from agriculture and love agriculture, and thinks about farmers and agricultural production everywhere, teaching and educating people. He asked his graduate students to choose subjects and carry out experimental research according to the actual situation, and also asked them to report the experimental situation to him frequently and give timely guidance. In order to cultivate graduate students' observation ability and in-depth practice style, he often personally leads students to go deep into the fields, connect with reality, analyze and solve production problems. He did what he asked his students to do first. Once, at the age of 8 1, he traveled all night to go back to school to teach graduate students on time, and finally stood on the podium on time, and the students were deeply educated. Not only that, he loves life as much as a child. Student's family conflicts, he does his own work; When students are sick, they take money to buy food and send it to the student dormitory. In the eyes of students, Hou Lao is both a strict teacher and a loving mother.