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Biography

Zhang Yongsheng, male, Han nationality, is a native of Jinan, Shandong Province. He was born in 1939 and graduated from the Machinery Department of Tangshan Railway College in 1962.

A mechanical engineering expert, Zhang joined Southwest Jiaotong University where he was the president office chief and later the university's vice-president. At the end of the 1980s, Zhang moved to the Ministry of Railways where he served as the chief of the collegiate department. After working at the ministry, he traveled to France where he studied elevating machinery engineering and machinery optimum design at Institute National Polytechnique.

Along with his university responsibilities, Zhang has worked with organizations related to his academic specialty. He was director of the China Degree and Postgraduate Education Society as well as the honorable chairman of the Beijing Collegiate Lab Society. Zhang was also a member of the China Railway Society Education Committee.

In 1997, Zhang was made Party secretary of Northern Jiaotong University.