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Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
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Revision History:
Biography Revised: 6/29/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006
Zhang Qian'er 张乾二
Standing Committee Member of the 9th CPPCC National Committee, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Born: 1928
Biography Highlight
Zhang Qian‘er, male, Han nationality, is a native of Hui‘an, Fujian Province. He was born in 1928 and graduated from the Chemistry Department of Xiamen University in 1951. Zhang completed postgraduate studies of the Chemistry Research Institute of Xiamen University in 1954. In 1956, he joined the China Peasants and Workers Democratic Party.
A career academic, Zhang has spent most of his adult life affiliated with his alma mater, Xiamen University. Along graduating and completing postgraduate studies at the university, Zhang lectured and directed the teaching and research section at Xiamen. He later served as the dean of the chemical department at the university and eventually rose to become the president of the chemistry institute at Xiamen.
Along with his university responsibilities, Zhang directed the Fujian Material Structure Research Institute at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was president of the Fujian Provincial Chemistry Society . In 1982, Zhang won a first-class State Natural Science Award and a second-class Scientific and Technological Progress Award from the State Education Commission for his accomplishments in physics.
In 1998, he was elected a standing committee member of the 9th CPPCC National Committee.
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