On the occasion of celebrating the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the Central Military Commission held a grand ceremony in Beijing on the 27th to confer the "August 1st Medal" and honorary titles. Du Fuguo, Qian Qihu, Nie Haisheng and others were awarded the "August 1st Medal".
Academician Qian Qihu is the founder of modern protective engineering theory in China, an expert in protective engineering and underground engineering, a member of the inaugural cohort of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and a professor at the Army Engineering University.

Resume of Academician Qian Qihu: Born in 1937 in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, of Han ethnicity. Graduated from the PLA Military Engineering Institute (Harbin Military Engineering Institute) in 1960; went to study at the Kuibyshev Military Engineering Academy in Moscow in 1961, where he received a Candidate of Sciences degree; returned to China in 1965 and successively taught and served as a professor at the Xi'an Engineering Corps Engineering Institute and the Nanjing Engineering Corps Engineering Institute. From 1983 to 1996, he served as president of the Nanjing Engineering Corps Engineering Institute (now merged with several other schools into the PLA University of Science and Technology); from 1996 to the present, he has served as deputy director and standing committee member of the Science and Technology Committee of the General Staff Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. In 1990, he was rated as a young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions to the state; in 1993 and 1998, he served as a member of the 8th and 9th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; in 1994, he was elected a member of the inaugural cohort of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He currently serves as an editorial board member of journals such as Explosion and Shock Waves, Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering, China Civil Engineering Journal, and Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering. He is the fifth president of the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering and vice president of the International Society for Rock Mechanics.

The expert group headed by Academician Qian Qihu reviews the risk assessment of the newly built Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway tunnel and the key technical scheme for the Jintang Subsea Tunnel

On May 25, 2022, Academician Qian Qihu provided guidance and direction for the compilation project of Qingdao's standards for tunnels with concurrent civil air defense functions (the "Project for the Compilation of Standards and Atlas and the R&D of Equipment for Underground Traffic Tunnels with Concurrent Civil Air Defense Functions in Qingdao")

Academician Qian Qihu briefs the media on the risks of crossing high-speed railways

On September 7, 2015, Academician Qian Qihu and other experts in the rail transit field made a special trip to the shield tunneling construction site of the Yellow River-crossing tunnel of the first phase of Lanzhou Metro Line 1 to "diagnose and prescribe remedies".