Recently, the Science & Technology Development Center of the Ministry of Education announced the list of the 2015 Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award (Science & Technology) of Colleges and Universities. The project "Mass extinction at the end of Permian—Bioenvironmental events and processes during the recovery period" presided over by Professor Tong Jinnan won the first prize of the Natural Science Award. The project was finished by Tong Jinnan, Lai Xulong, Jiang Haishui, Song Haijun and Sun Yadong, all of whom are regular researchers of our laboratory.