Abstract
Professor You-Chong Hong, a famous Chinese palaeoentomologist, was born in Nan’ao County, Shantou City, Guangdong Province on 5 November 1929 and passed away in Beijing on 4 July 2019. In 1953, Prof. Hong graduated from the Beijing College of Geology (China University of Geosciences, Beijing) and was assigned to the Laboratory of Ferrous Metal of the Department of Geology and Minerals of the Ministry of Geology. From 1957 to 1958, he worked in the Department of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology, Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences. He studied fossil mollusks and later fossil insects in the Soviet Academy of Sciences from 1958 to 1960 (Fig. 1). He returned to the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences from 1960 to 1963; worked at the Tianjin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Ministry of Geology and Minerals from 1963 to 1984; and worked at the Beijing Museum of Natural History after 1984.
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