The paper is a comprehensive survey of the achievements of FENG Guo-rui in his research of the monastic grottoes of Gansu Province, particularly those in Maiji Mountain, Bingling Monastery, and Tianti Mountain.

Restoration and conservation of a painted sculpture of Tiantishan Grottoes;

In order to realize their dreams,the ancient Chinese came up with all kinds of ways from through the "heaven ladder " to "riding the dragon" or,"eclosion".

Comparative study of the foreland thrust belts of South and North Tianshan and implications for hydrocarbon accumulation;

Geological characteristics of black shale-hosted ore deposits and their prospecting in the Tianshan;

Consistency of oxalate record between Tianshan and Everest regions and its environmental significance.;

Permafrost Temperature in the Ice Pass at the Source of the Urumqi River, Tianshan Mountains;

Situation and Origin of Soil Salinization in the North Front of the Central Tianshan Mountains;

Study on the Wild Fruit Tree Diseases of Tianshan Mountains and Their Distribution in Xinjiang;

Analysis of seismic activity in the crust from earthquake relocation in the Central Tian Shan;

From 6 months seismic data continuously recorded by stations directly set up in Tian shan area, We picked clear teleseismic P arrivals, and three dimensional velocity image of Tian shan crust and upper mantle was given with the ACH technique.

Magnetostratigraphy of the Kashi foreland basin along the southern margin of the Tian Shan in western China defines the chronology of both sedimentation and the structural evolution of this collisional mountain belt.