Friday, October 17, 2008

Sun Zhonghuan

Sun Zhonghuan , is a politician. He is the former Mayor of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He is the current Chairman of the .

Career



Sun was born in July 1948 in Yuyao, , Zhejiang Province. Sun studied in Hangzhou University and the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Sun's career includes:
February 1969 - February 1974, soldier of People's Liberation Army 5170 Branch;
December 1983 - October 1985, Deputy Secretary and Mayor of Lanxi, , Zhejiang Province;
November 1989 - March 1993, Secretary of Yongkang, Jinhua City;
Martch 1993 - September 1994, Deputy Director of the Zhejiang Provincial Trade and Industry Bureau ;
September 1994 - April 1995, Deputy Secretary and of the Zhejiang Provincial Trade and Industry Bureau;
April 1995 - August 1996, General Secretary and Director of the Zhejiang Provincial Trade and Industry Bureau;
August 1996 - May 2000, General Secretary of ;
May 2000 - January 2002, General Secretary of Taizhou City and the Chief Director of the ;
January 2002 - February 2003, General Secretary and Chief Director of the Zhejiang Economic and Trade Commission
April 2004 - January 2005, Deputy Secretary, Vice-mayor and Acting Mayor of Hangzhou;
February 2005 - April 2007, Deputy Secretary and Mayor of Hangzhou;
April 2007 - present, Chairman of the .

Song Xi

SONG Xi , also known as Sung Shee or Sung Hsi, was an important Taiwan historian, geographer, educator and governmental official. Song was the 4th President of the Chinese Culture University.

Life



October 6, 1920, Song was born in Lishui, Zhejiang Province, China. He studied history and geography at Zhejiang University and obtained his bacholar's and master's degrees there. His master thesis discussed the relationship between merchants and scholar-bureaucrats, governmant in Song Dynasty. He also obtained a master's degree from the Department of History, Columbia University, with dissertation ''Chinese Labour in the Transvaal, 1904-1907''. Song obtained PhD from Chinese Culture University in June, 1989 . Song also received a honorary doctor's degree from Korean Konkuk University.

Song came to Taiwan together with Chang Chi-yun. He had a long career in governmental offices including the research institute of national defence. He was the director of the Department of History and then Institute of History, Chinese Culture University. He also was the 4th President of the Chinese Culture University.

Song was a famous historian especially in the field of Song dynasty history.

March 22, 2007, Song died from a car accident.

Works



Song's studies mainly were in Chinese history especially Song Dynasty history.
《宋史研究論叢》
《旅美論叢》
《中國史學論集》
《清末華工對南非屈蘭斯瓦爾金礦開採的貢獻》
《中國現代史論叢》
《華學研究論集》
《宋代學術精神之探討》

Song Weiping

SONG Weiping , is a real estate and billionaire. He is the co-founder and current president of China Greentown .

Career



Song was born in Shenxian County, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province in 1967. 1982, he graduated from the Department of History, Hangzhou University . 1982-1987, he taught in a party school. 1987, he went to Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, and worked in a computer company as a secretary.

1994, Song went back to Hangzhou, he founded China Greentown, a real estate company, with his wife Xia Yibo . Currently, China Greentown is a leading real estate company in Zhejiang Province, Shanghai and Beijing. Song also invests in football team. He founded his own soccer team and club, and named them after Greentown .

According to the recent 2007 Forbes Mainland China Rich List , Song and his wife were ranked No.41 with 9.75 billion .

Shiyi Chen

Shiyi Chen , is the current Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Chair in Engineering and Science, Mechanical Engineering and Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University.

He is also the Dean of the College of Engineering and the Director of the Center for Computational Science & Engineering, Peking University .

Career



Chen studied mechanics at Zhejiang University from January 1978 to January 1982. He did his postgraduate study at Peking University.

He was a post-doctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory USA from June 1987 to February 1990. From February 1990 to December 1990, he was a research scientist at the Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware. From May 1990 till December 1993, he was a visiting faculty in the Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University. December 1990 - November 1992, he was an Oppenheimer Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. November 1992 - September 1994, he was a research staff and group leader in the same lab. September 1994 - January 2000, he was a research staff member at the IBM Research Division. Then he started his career at the Johns Hopkins University. July 1997 - January 2000, he was also the Deputy Director of the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Chen did some outstanding research in lattice gas methods in which he created important analysis approach and led engineering applications. He also did contributions to the high performance computing. He did fundamental studies in the theory of turbulence. For these reasons, he was elected as a fellow of American Physical Society and Institute of Physics .

Shi Zhongci

SHI Zhongci , also known as Zhong-Ci SHI, is a computational mathematician of the People's Republic of China, and an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences .

Career


Shi was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province in December 5, 1933. 1955, He graduated from the Ningbo Middle School. He first studied mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, under the guidance of Professor Su Buqing. Shi then was transferred to Fudan University together with Su Buqing.

After graduating from the department of mathematics of Fudan University in 1955, Shi became one of first Chinese visiting scholars in Soviet Union, and studied computational mathematics at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Moscow from 1956 till 1960.

Upon returning in 1960, Shi served in the institute of computational technology of CAS. From 1965 to 1986, he was a professor in the Department of Mathematics of University of Science and Technology of China. From 1987 to 1991, he became the director of computation center of CAS. From 1997, Shi served as the Dean of School of Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is now a research fellow of computation center of CAS, and the director of national key laboratory of scientific and engineering computation. Shi currently is a vice-dean of College of Sciences, Zhejiang University, and a reseacher at the Center of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University .

Academic positions


Chairman of Academic Committee, the State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing
Chairman of Academic Committee, the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing
Chief Scientist, National Key Project for Fundemental Research

Shi Yuzhu

Shi Yuzhu , is a noted entrepreneur, billionaire, and software engineer.

Career



Shi was born in Huaiyuan County, Anhui Province, People's Republic of China in 1962. Shi graduated from the Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University. He did his postgraduate study in the Department of Software Engineering at Shenzhen University.

In 1989, Shi founded his own software company by only 4,000 Chinese Yuan. In 1992, he founded the Giant Group . 1998, Shi went bankrupt thus disappeared from the public. 2007, Shi became a billionaire in US dollars.

Wealth


In 2007's Forbes Mainland China Rich List , Shi was ranked No.24 with a net worth of 16.75 .

According to the Hurun Report 2007, Shi has a net worth as high as 28 billion Chinese Yuan , and Shi with his daughter Shi Jing together has a wealth above 41 billion Yuan .

Shi Yafeng

Shi Yafeng , is a senior academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He's an expert on geography and glaciology, and regarded as the "Father of Chinese Glaciology" .

Life



Shi was born in Haimen, Jiangsu Province on Mar.21 1919. He did his undergraduate and postgraduate studies both at Zhejiang University. He led the Batoula Glacier Investigation Team, Glaciology and Geocryology Institute of Chinese Academe Science in 1978, which was the first modern Chinese team to systematically investigate glaciers.

Chronologically, he was a researcher, the vice-director, , honorary director of the Lanzhou Glacier Frozen Earth Institute , Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Works


monograph: ''Glacier Conspectus of China''
monograph: ''Glaciers and Glacial Geomorphology in China''