Recently, it was reported that Professor James G. Ogg, a foreign expert hired by the Ministry of Education through the Overseas Prominent Teacher Program, presided over the writing of International Chronostratigraphic Chart, which won the 2017 Prose Book Award. The International Chronostratigraphic Chart is the only award-winning monograph in the geoscience category, and the State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology is the second workplace of its author.