[1] Shi was born in Haimen, Jiangsu on March 21, 1919.
[2] He did his undergraduate and postgraduate studies both at Zhejiang University.
He led the Batoula Glacier Investigation Team, Glaciology and Geocryology Institute of Chinese Academe Science in 1978, which was the first modern Chinese team to systematically investigate glaciers.
He was a researcher, vice-director, director, honorary director of the Lanzhou Glacier Frozen Earth Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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