The Future of Sedimentology in China:A review and look forward to education of sedimentology

Key words: 
• sedimentology in China /
• education /
• development strategy /
• dissertation

Abstract: This paper analyzes the talents training mode of China's sedimentology education based on the investigation of the sedimentology major setting, curriculum, field teaching and graduate thesis of the major geological colleges in China. The results show that the geological colleges and universities in China involved in sedimentology undergraduate professional settings are basically unified, but there are relatively large differences in the professional setting of graduate students, and traditional advantages research field of the major colleges and universities have their own characteristics; Statistics of graduation thesis of postgraduate students in related field in recent 15 years suggest that the number of graduation thesis related to sedimentology accounts for 32% of the total number of graduation thesis in geological disciplines, of which oil-gas geology disciplines accounted for 77.1%. It is apparent that oil-gas geology is the fastest growing discipline to improve sedimentology, indicating that China's economic growth and oil and gas exploration are closely related to the demand of talent; Compared China's gross domestic product(GDP) growth rate with dissertations, it can be found that China's sedimentology education and national economy are the synchronized development. On the one hand, national economic development and social progress are constantly putting forward new topics to the field of sedimentology, promoting the development of sedimentology and sedimentology education. On the other hand, the achievements of sedimentology and sedimentology education in turn promote national economic development and society progress. It is necessary to establish the correct goal and mode for the cultivation of the talents of sedimentology. Which we need throughout the whole process of talent training is not only the quality education and innovation ability training, but also building a lifelong education system by coordinating and unifying undergraduate foundation geological education and graduate special sedimentology education. Only in this way can truly meet the needs of social development, make all fields of sedimentology research strength continuously, and make China's sedimentology thrive.