the Program for Professor of Special Appointment(Eastern Scholar)at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning(No.TP2014010)to LI Jixi;China Ocean Mineral Resources R&D Association(COMRA)Special Foundation(DY125-14-E-02)to XU Xuewei
National Basic Research Program of China(No.2014CB441503);National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41406174);Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(No.LY14D060006)~~