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Biography

Chen Bingcong, male, Han nationality, was born in 1921. He received a bachelor's degree from the Machinery Department of Northwest Engineering Institute in 1943. The following year, in 1944, Chen studied in the senior class of the Machinery School of the Air Force and became an aviation engineer; he remained at the school until 1946. Chen received a master's degree from the Aviation Department of the University of Illinois in 1948.

After serving as a professor and dean in the Automation Department at Shandong Engineering College, Chen became a professor and dean in the tractor department at Jilin Industrial University in 1955 – he served in those capacities for 28 years. In 1983, he became honorary president of the university.

Involved with organizations such as the China Agricultural Engineering Society, the China Farm Machinery Society, and the Asia Agricultural Engineering Society (based in Thailand), Chen is the winner of two prizes of the science conference from the Ministry of First Machinery Industry. In 1992, he was awarded a Class II national award for scientific progress on bionic research on earth disengagement mechanisms.

He is a deputy chairman of the Jilin CPPCC and a member of the Academic Degrees Committee of State Council.