On October 27th, 2017, CUMTB held the unveiling ceremony of the “Coal-hosted Rare Metal Deposit” Base for Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (Project 111). The research team has made some important progress in this field and published a series of high-level papers with significant academic impact on major international academic periodicals, contributing greatly for the geoscience discipline of CUMTB being listed into the ESI global top 1%.