Qiu Shihua is the founder of China's carbon-14 dating technology, which plays an important role in measuring the history of archaeological sites and has been viewed as a revolution in archaeology. Together with Cai Lianzhen, he founded the country's first laboratory for carbon-14 dating in the Chinese Institute of Archaeology in 1965. He was in charge of research in the formulation of Chinese carbon-14 dating sugar-carbon standards in the 1980s. He publishes one report on research data related to carbon-14 dating in the Archaeology journal every year since 1972.
