Prof. Shi Changxu is regarded as a pioneer in the field of supper-alloys in . He led the development of the first generation of cast hollow turbine blades. Shi presided over the creation of a national science and technology development planning for the country concerning metallurgical material, material science, and other new materials. He has served as a researcher and honorary director of the and was a specially invited advisor of the National Natural Science Fund Committee. He was also vice-president of the China Academy of Engineering and was elected as an academician to that academy in 1994. The following year in 1995, he became an academician of the Third World Academy of Science.