1920 left Changsha with his parents and moved to Beiping.
1920- 1928 finished high school in Beiping.
1928- 1934 studied in Tianjin Nankai Middle School. After graduation, he was admitted to the Department of Geography of Tsinghua University.
1934- 1935 joined the Tsinghua University picket after the outbreak of the "December 9th" anti-Japanese patriotic movement.
1935- 1936 Tsinghua, Peking University and Nankai organized a southern propaganda group, and Chen Ben was a member of the third group.
1936- 1937 Tsinghua, Peking University and Nankai formed the National Changsha Temporary University in Changsha, Hunan Province, and Chen Bennan entered the school.
1937- 1938 joined the artillery regiment of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters in Linfen, Shanxi. Three months later, I went to Kunming, Yunnan, and went to the National Southwest Associated University for further study.
1938- 1939 graduated from the Department of Geology of National Southwest Associated University and joined the Central Geological Survey of Chongqing National Government.
1939- 1940 was invited by sun jianchu to work in Yumen laojunmiao oil mine.
1940- 194 1 year accompanied Weng Wenbo in geophysical exploration.
194 1 * * Joined China.
1943- 1944 works in Yumen laojunmiao Oil Mine.
1944- 1946 to study in the United States for two years.
1946- 1947 was sent by the Resources Committee to investigate oil resources in Taiwan Province Province.
1947- 1948 participated in the investigation team composed of China oil company, etc. , and conducted a geological survey in Gan Qing area.
1948- 1949 works in Yumen laojunmiao Oil Mine.
1949- 1950 used to work in China petroleum company.
1950- 1953 served as deputy director of exploration department in northern Shaanxi.
195 1- 1953 Beijing petroleum general administration was transferred to the position of chief geologist of the geological prospecting department.
1953- 1956 served as the first deputy chief geologist of the Exploration Department of the Ministry of Petroleum.
1956- 1958 works in the Ministry of Petroleum Industry.
1958- 1966 He was sent to Lenghu Oilfield in Qinghai as a geologist.
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