Academician Ma Xingyuan was born in Changchun, Jilin Province on April 26th. My father is in business and his ancestral home is Laoting County, Hebei Province. Since he was a teenager, his learning style has gone through an extraordinary course, just like our troubled nation. 193 1 "September 18th Incident", the northeast fell. Ma Xingyuan, a teenager who just graduated from primary school, had to go into exile and went to Huiwen Middle School in Changli, Hebei Province and Nankai Middle School in Tianjin. The peril of the motherland, the disaster of the nation and the corruption of the government he witnessed left a deep impression on his young mind, and at the same time aroused his strong patriotic enthusiasm. In 1935, during the "December 9th" patriotic student movement, I joined a petition group going south, stayed on the tracks with everyone to intercept the train, and then moved to Nanjing to protest against the Kuomintang government's non-resistance policy. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he dropped out of school and left Tianjin with a group of revolutionary youths and progressives, passing through Yantai and moving to Chongqing. As the rear area of the Anti-Japanese War, Chongqing's revolutionary and progressive forces also have great influence. Ma Xingyuan, who was a senior three student in Nanyu Middle School (later changed to Nankai Middle School), was further influenced in his thoughts. Long-term exile has made his love and hate clear and his thoughts more mature. He published a woodcut of the Eighth Route Army soldiers in Xinhua Daily sponsored by * * under the pen name "Horseshoe". 1In May, 938, he joined the underground party organization of the Southern Bureau of the Communist Party of China led by Zhou Enlai at that time and received training in the office of the Eighth Route Army. Since then, under the direct leadership of * * *, he has risked his life to continue to engage in underground revolutionary activities in the White Area.

1938 after graduating from high school, Ma Xingyuan kept in mind Lu Xun's warning, refused to be a short-lived artist, chose a practical and professional service to the country, and realized his beautiful ideal of "traveling all over the mountains and rivers of the motherland". This autumn, he was admitted to the Department of Geology, Geography and Meteorology of The National SouthWest Associated University, Kunming, and embarked on the road of engaging in geological science all his life. During his four-year college life, he studied hard in all subjects, while actively propagating the revolution and exposing the corruption and social darkness of the Kuomintang government. In the teacher Yuntao Sun, Yuan Fuli, Feng Jinglan, Zhang Xisuo, Wang Hengsheng and German professor P? Mish and other geologists of the older generation have been edified, and they have developed an excellent style of study that pays attention to practice and is meticulous. After graduating from college, he stayed in the Department of Geography of National Southwest Associated University as a teaching assistant. 1945 After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he won a scholarship from the British Council to study abroad. With the consent of the party organization, he went to the Department of Geology of the University of Edinburgh, England, to study for a doctorate in May 438+0946+10, and studied under Professor Arthur. Holmes, one of the famous geologists. 1948 In August, he obtained his doctorate with excellent results and high-level papers, and read the papers at the 18 international geological conference held in London. At that time, he heard that the Kuomintang government was about to collapse and the People's Liberation Army was about to liberate all of China, and his heart could not be calm for a long time. Although he has a good research environment, generous treatment and bright future abroad, the hope of the motherland, the call of the party and his own pursuit made him bid farewell to Britain and return to the motherland after three years' absence, and applied for the position of associate professor in the Department of Geology of Peking University. At the same time, under the leadership of the underground party organization in Beiping, the national liberation was ushered in.