Recently, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) released the result of approved 2020 key projects. The project led by Professor Liu Liang of NWU’s Department of Geology, has been approved and received direct funding of 3.01 million yuan from Key Project of NSFC. As Project Coordinator, Professor Liu will head a project entitled “The Mechanisms of Continental Ultra-Deep Subduction and the Induced Crust-Mantle Interation”, the 12th NSFC Key Project attained by NWU during her Fifteenth Five-Year Plan Period.