Abstract: Professor Fu He was born in Jiaocheng County, Shanxi Province, China. He has been working in the Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences since graduation from Shanxi University in 1964. He had undertaken and completed many research projects as a principal or main investigator during R&D and industrialization studies in the field of carbon fibers for over forty years. He has authored four books, held twelve patents, and published 120 research papers. Two of his books, "The preparation, properties and applications of carbon fibers" and "Carbon fibers and the techniques for application" have been recognized as classic textbooks by many researchers in the field of carbon fibers in China. A total of fifteen scientific achievements have been developed by him, five of which have been applied in the industrialization of carbon fibers. He received the State Council Special Allowance in 1992, and was awarded the National Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contribution Award in 1988, the Excellent Graduate Supervisor of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1998, the SecondClass Merit by the Labor Emulation Committee of Shanxi Province in 1999, and the Distinguished Achievement Award on Carbon Materials in 2009.