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Biography

Tan Runhua, male, Han nationality, is a native of Renqiu, Hebei Province. He graduated from the Machinery Department of Hebei Technical College in 1982 and received a Master's Degree from the same college in 1984. Tan then graduated from the Machinery Department of Zhejiang University in 1998.

Tan started his career as a teacher in Hebei Province in 1974. The same year, he joined the China Association for Promoting Democracy. Two years later, he became the secretary of the Personnel Education Section at the Huabei Oilfield Design Institute, leaving there in 1978 to study at Hebei Technical College. After receiving undergraduate and graduate degrees from the college, Tan remained at the school to teach in the Machinery Department.

In 1994, he traveled to Britain's Brunel University to serve as a senior visiting scholar. The following year, he returned to Hebei Technical College to become an associate professor. In 1996, he left the college to obtain a Doctorate in engineering and to later work at Hebei University of Technology. He became the university's computation center chief and then the dean of the Machinery School.

Tan has held several leadership positions with several organizations. He was director of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers and was the director and deputy secretary of the National Modern Design Theory and Method Committee. In Hebei, he was the vice-chairman of the province's China Association for Promoting Democracy.

In 1999, Tan became the vice-president of Hebei University of Technology. He also tutors Doctorate students at the university.