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Biography

Sun Zhongxiu, male, Han nationality, is a native of Yuhang, Zhejiang Province. He was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province and graduated from the Mathematics Department of Nanjing University in 1957.

A former professor at Nanjing University, Sun also served as the president of the technical science college at the university. He is a computer scientist whose early research includes the development of operating systems for the DJS200 computer series. Sun also played a prominent role in creating the ZCZ distribution microcomputer system and later developed multiple practical distribution computer systems, such as the distribution SBC system and ZH distribution microcomputer system. Both of these systems were applied to the processing of testing data of agricultural machinery for the first time in China.

Sun is credited with building the local area network for the Nanjing municipal government and the enterprise management system of the Nanjing Automobile Manufacture plant. His research also focused on devising multiple distribution system software.

In 1991, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.