On March 10, it was reported that the scientific research achievements made by Lai Xulong & Sun Yadong's research team of and their collaborators were selected into the "top ten scientific progress of Chinese universities" in 2012. Elucidation on the mode and causes of the great extinction and its recovery at the turn between Permian and Triassic composed by the scientific research achievements made by our team and Shen Shuzhong & Wang Yue's team from Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology (CAS), was selected into "China's top ten progress in science" in 2012.