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Liu Guangrun, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

Born: 1929, Baodi County, Tianjin Liu Guangrun, male, Han nationality, is a native of Baodi County, Tianjin. He was born in 1929, graduated from the Nanjing Mining Specialized School in 1952 and continued his studies at the Water and Electricity Science Institute in the former Soviet Union. Liu successfully conducted the survey of the Cheng-Kun (northern section) and Xiang-Yu (An-Ba) railways and discovered, and successfully remedied, a number of potential landslide and debris flow cases.

Liu has also played a key role in the building of the Three Gorges' Dam. Several of his suggestions were adopted by the government and he directed and led the group in the researching of some critical issues, such as the stability of the earth crust in the dam construction area, the stability of the slopes of the reservoir and the possibility of an earthquake caused by dam.

Liu has made accurate mid-predictions on the landslide of the new beach along the Yangtze River and made a safe judgment call on the resumption of the transportation along the river. He examined the plans and provided consultations for dozens of geological disaster prevention projects across China.

Liu has proposed many innovative theories in terms of the geological classification of the rock mass project, the analysis of the slope stability and the formation law of geological disaster. Liu has published over 60 dissertations in domestic periodicals and compiled and published the "Introduction of the Engineering Geology and Environment Geology" and other monographs.

Liu is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.