 Ramba uchinyora ndima iyi - Muzana remakore rechi19 uye kutanga kwezana remakore rechi20, vatsvakurudzi vokune dzimwe nyika nevomunyika muno - kusanganisira Roy Chapman Andrews naYang Zhongjian - vakawana zvinhu zvakawanda zvine chokuita nemadinosaur muChina neMongolia, kunyanya murenje reGobi. Izvi zvakachinja nekusimuka kweChinese Communist Party uye kugadzwa kwePeoples Republic of Chinamuna 1949, iyo yakaona masangano echikoro echiChinese akarongwazve uye mamwe minda, kubatanidza anthropology, achidonha mukufarirwa pamusoro pehukama hwavo hunofungidzirwa neudzvinyiriri. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology IVPP muBeijing yakanga ine vadzidzi vayo vakawanda vakagoverwa kune mamwe mapurojekiti, akadai seDown to the Countryside Movement, asi yakatanga kuvakazve pakati pemakore ekuma1970 nekugadzwazve kwebhuku rechikoro Vertebrata PalAsiatica uye zviwanikwa zvakakura seDashanpu bonebeds. Nyanzvi yezvipembenene yokuChina Dong Zhiming yakava nomukurumbira musangano racho pashure pokufa kwaYang Zhongjian, mudzidzisi wake uye baba vezvipembenene zvokuChina. 