Recently,the General Office of Ministry of Education released the “Notice of the Ministry of Education on Publishing the 2017 Rolling Support List of the ‘Innovative Team Development Plan’ (No.69 [2017], General Office of Ministry of Education)”. The teamwith Prof. Dai Shifeng as the academic leader researching on “the geochemistry of microelements in coals” was enrolled. On April 28th, 2017, the Department of Science and Technology of Ministry of Education organized a group of experts with academician Wang Shancheng as the group leader to assess the team’s achievements during construction period (2014-2016), which was graded as excellent.