This year marks the 100th birthday of Prof. Huang Jiqing (T. K. Huang) birth, a great master of ageneration. This thematic issue of Geological Review is prepared to commemorate his birth.As a pioneer and founder of modern geology of China, Prof. Huang's academic activity and works involvevarious disciplines of geosciences, with especially eminent contributions to biostratigraphy, regional geology,geological mapping, tectonics, and petroleum geology. Since the 1930s, he had been all the way one of the