On April 14, Elsevier officially released the 2021 Highly Cited Chinese Researchers list.  This year, China's highly cited researchers came from 523 universities, enterprises and scientific research institutions, and a total of 4701 Chinese researchers with the most global influence in various disciplines were selected. Prof. Chen Jianfeng, Prof. Qiu Jieshan, Prof. Liu Zhenyu, Prof. Cao Dapeng, Prof. Cheng Daojian, Prof. Li Chunxi, Prof. Ji Shengfu, Prof. Lei Zhigang, Prof. Sun Zhenyu and Prof. Yu Le were successfully included in the list under the discipline of Chemical Engineering and Technology. 

Since 2016, the number of our researchers selected into Elsevier's list of Highly Cited Chinese Researchers has been increasing year by year.  Prof. Chen Jianfeng has been selected for 6 times, Prof. Li Chunxi for 6 times, Prof. Liu Zhenyu for 6 times, Prof. Cao Dapeng for 4 times, Prof. Qiu Jieshan for 3 times, and Prof. Cheng Daojian, Prof. Lei Zhigang and Prof. Ji Shengfu have all been selected for 2 times. 

Elsevier's List of Highly Cited Chinese Researchers used Scopus database (the world's leading peer-reviewed abstracts citation index) as the statistical source.  Highly Cited Chinese Researchers selects academic talents from the perspective of pure paper influence which is objective and unified. It is conducive to viewing talents from multiple perspectives and has important reference value.  

Highly Cited Chinese Researchers has always been the core evaluation index of Chinese university rankings in soft science.  Being selected into the List in Elsevier means that the total number of cited papers published by the scholar as the first author and corresponding author is at the top level among all researchers in this discipline in the country. It has a high world influence and has made great contributions to the development of the field.