After nearly 50 years of development and the efforts of three generations, the College has become an important base for professional education, high-level personnel training and scientific research in the field of resources and environmental science in Xinjiang. From 1950s to 1990s, the former geography department of Xinjiang University was headed by Zhou Zung, Mi Jiti Hudabodi and Tashi Fulati Teyibai, with Umail as the general branch secretary. Li Yaozeng, Zhang and Palati are the heads of the Geology Department of Xinjiang Institute of Technology, and Li Yongqi, Sai Yili and Sun Baosheng are the general branch secretaries. The Institute of Drought Ecology, led by Ren Guangyao, Pan Xiaoling and Xiong Heigang, has been changed several times.