Yang Li is the vice chief engineer of Sinopec Corp., an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and is engaged in research of petroleum geology and oil/gas reservoir development. Yang Li served as the chief scientist for two projects ‘Basic research on development of fracture-vug carbonate reservoirs’(2006-2010), and ‘Basic research on production mechanism and oil recovery enhancement of fracture-vug carbonate reservoirs’ (2011-2015) supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program).