100 Notable alumni of
Tsinghua University
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Tsinghua University is 226th in the world, 41st in Asia, and 5th in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Tsinghua University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Xi Jinping
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- 1975-1979 graduated with bachelor's degree in chemical engineering
- Occupations
- statespersonpolitician
- Biography
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Xi Jinping is a Chinese statesman and politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) since 2012, and the president of China since 2013. Xi has been the leader of the fifth generation of Chinese leadership since 2012.
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Hu Jintao
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Hu Jintao is a Chinese politician who served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, president of China from 2003 to 2013, and chairman of the Central Military Commission from 2004 to 2012. He was a member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee, China's top decision-making body, from 1992 to 2012, and served as the paramount leader of China from 2002 to 2012.
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Zhu Rongji
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- In 1951 studied electrical engineering
- Occupations
- engineerbusinesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Zhu Rongji is a retired Chinese electrical engineer and politician who served as the 5th premier of China from 1998 to 2003. He also served as member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1992 to 2002, along with CCP general secretary Jiang Zemin.
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Chen-ning Yang
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- Graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- university teachertheoretical physicistphysicist
- Biography
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Yang Chen-Ning also known as C.N. Yang and Franklin Yang, was a Chinese-American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge theory, particle physics and condensed matter physics.
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Hu Haifeng
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Hu Haifeng is a Chinese politician and the son of Hu Jintao, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Paramount leader of China. He is currently the Deputy Minister of Civil Affairs, and previously CCP Committee Secretary of Lishui and the deputy CCP Committee Secretary and mayor of Jiaxing.
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Sun Li-jen
- Occupations
- basketball playermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Sun Li-jen was a Chinese National Revolutionary Army general best known for his leadership in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War. His military achievements earned him the laudatory nickname "Rommel of the East". Sun's commands were credited with effectively confronting Japanese troops in the 1937 Battle of Shanghai and in 1943–1944 during the Burma campaign; his New 1st Army was known as the "Best Army under heaven" (天下第一軍).
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Tsung-Dao Lee
- Occupations
- university teachertheoretical physicistphysicist
- Biography
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Tsung-Dao Lee was a Chinese-American physicist known for his work on parity violation, the Lee–Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons, and soliton stars. He was a university professor emeritus at Columbia University in New York City, where he taught from 1953 until his retirement in 2012.
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Yang Jiang
- Occupations
- translatorplaywrightfilm screenwriterwriter
- Biography
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Yang Jiang was a Chinese playwright, author, and translator. She wrote several successful comedies, and was the first Chinese person to produce a complete Chinese version of Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote.
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Mao Yuanxin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mao Yuanxin, also known as Li Shi (Chinese: 李实), is a former Chinese politician, military officer and engineer. As the nephew of Chairman Mao Zedong, he acted as the liaison between Mao and the Communist Party's Central Committee in Mao's ailing years, when he was no longer able to regularly attend political functions. He was considered an ally to the radical political faction known as the Gang of Four. He was arrested soon after Mao's death after a political struggle ensued, and was sentenced to prison.
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Chen Jining
- Occupations
- professorcivil engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Chen Jining is a Chinese environmental scientist, academic administrator and politician who has been serving as Party Secretary of Shanghai and member of the 20th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party since October 2022.
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Alex Tsai
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tsai Cheng-yuan, also known by his English name Alex Tsai, is a Taiwanese politician and legal scholar. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he served as a member of the Legislative Yuan from 2008 to 2016. He was one of the 3rd members of the National Assembly.
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Li Jian
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Li Jian is a Chinese singer best known for his poetic musical style. His career began as one of the two founding members of the band "Shui Mu Nian Hua." After his departure from the band in 2002, he began his solo career. To date, he has produced nine albums. He is well known for his song "Chuan Qi" (Legend), which became a hit song after Chinese diva Faye Wong performed it on the 2010 Spring Gala.
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Song Ping
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- 1935-1937 studied chemistry
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Song Ping is a Chinese Communist revolutionary and a retired high-ranking politician. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Song is considered the only living member of the Second Generation of Chinese Leadership.
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Wu Bangguo
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- 1960-1966 graduated with bachelor's degree in electronic engineering
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wu Bangguo was a Chinese politician who served as the second-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012, and as Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 2003 to 2013.
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Chen Xi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chen Xi is a Chinese politician and the president of the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Liu Yongqing
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Liu Yongqing is the wife of Hu Jintao, the former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the People's Republic of China. Traditionally, Liu Yongqing's role would be primarily domestic, but Liu often accompanied her husband on his official trips to foreign countries and made personal appearances at charities and cultural institutions all over the world.
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Yao Yilin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yao Yilin was a Chinese politician and soldier who was Vice Premier of China from 1979 to 1988 and First Vice Premier from 1988 to 1993.
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Huang Ju
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Huang Ju was a Chinese politician and a high-ranking leader in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was one of the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the CCP, China's top decision making body, between 2002 until his death in 2007, and also served as the first-ranked vice premier of China beginning in 2003. He died in office before he could complete his terms on the Standing Committee and as vice premier.
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Liang Sicheng
- Occupations
- architectart historianurban plannerrestorerarchitectural historian
- Biography
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Liang Sicheng was a Chinese architect and architectural historian, known as the father of modern Chinese architecture. His father, Liang Qichao, was one of the most prominent Chinese scholars of the early 20th century. His wife was the architect and poet Lin Huiyin. His younger brother, Liang Siyong, was one of China's first archaeologists.
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Yang Liwei
- Occupations
- astronautfighter pilot
- Biography
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Yang Liwei is a Chinese major general, former military pilot, and former taikonaut of the People's Liberation Army.
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Qian Zhongshu
- Occupations
- man of lettersliterary scholarwritertranslator
- Biography
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Qian Zhongshu, also transliterated as Ch'ien Chung-shu or Dzien Tsoong-su, was a Chinese literary scholar and writer. He was known for his satirical novel Fortress Besieged; his erudite, rarefied nonfiction, distinguished by extensive, polyglot references to Chinese and Western history and literature; and his role in translating Mao Zedong’s writings into English.
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Huang Kunming
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Huang Kunming is a Chinese politician, currently serving as the Party secretary of Guangdong and a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Shiing-Shen Chern
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- Studied in 1930-1934
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese American mathematician and poet. He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He has been called the "father of modern differential geometry" and is widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, winning numerous awards and recognition including the Wolf Prize and the inaugural Shaw Prize. In memory of Shiing-Shen Chern, the International Mathematical Union established the Chern Medal in 2010 to recognize "an individual whose accomplishments warrant the highest level of recognition for outstanding achievements in the field of mathematics."
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Ken Xie
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Ken Xie is a Chinese billionaire businessman who founded Systems Integration Solutions (SIS), NetScreen, and Fortinet.
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Zhu Ziqing
- Years
- 1898-1948 (aged 50)
- Occupations
- scholaressayistprose writerwriterpoet
- Biography
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Zhu Ziqing, born Zhu Zihua, was a renowned Chinese poet and essayist. Zhu studied at Peking University, and during the May Fourth Movement became one of several pioneers of modernism in China during the 1920s. Zhu was a prolific writer of both prose and poetry, but is best known for essays like "Retreating Figure" (Chinese: 背影; pinyin: Bèiyǐng), and "You. Me." (Chinese: 你我; pinyin: Nǐ wǒ). His best known work in verse is the long poem "Destruction" or Huimie (Chinese: 毀滅; pinyin: Huǐmiè).
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Liu Yandong
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- In 1970 studied chemistry
- Occupations
- politicianchemist
- Biography
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Liu Yandong is a retired Chinese politician. She recently served as the Vice Premier of China, and was a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party from 2007 to 2017, a State Councilor between 2007 and 2012, and was head of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party between 2002 and 2007.
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Cheng Hong
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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Cheng Hong is a Chinese literary scholar and translator. She is a professor at the Capital University of Economics and Business and the widow of the former Chinese premier Li Keqiang.
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Chao Yuen Ren
- Occupations
- linguistpoetcomposertranslatoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Yuen Ren Chao, also known as Zhao Yuanren, was a Chinese-American linguist, educator, scholar, poet, and composer, who contributed to the modern study of Chinese phonology and grammar. Chao was born and raised in China, then attended university in the United States, where he earned degrees from Cornell University and Harvard University. A naturally gifted polyglot and linguist, his Mandarin Primer was one of the most widely used Mandarin Chinese textbooks in the 20th century. He invented the Gwoyeu Romatzyh romanization scheme, which, unlike pinyin and other romanization systems, transcribes Mandarin Chinese pronunciation without diacritics or numbers to indicate tones.
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Li Ganjie
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Li Ganjie is a Chinese politician serving as the head of the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He is a member of the 20th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party and a secretary of the 20th Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Yigong Shi
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherbiophysicistbiologistbiochemist
- Biography
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Shi Yigong is a Chinese biophysicist who serves as founding and the current president of Westlake University since April 2018. He previously served as vice president of Tsinghua University from 2015 to 2018 and dean of Tsinghua University School of Life Sciences from 2009 to 2016.
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Zhou Xiaochuan
- Occupations
- economistbankerbusinesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Zhou Xiaochuan is a Chinese economist. Zhou served as the governor of the People's Bank of China from 2002 to 2018.
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Deng Yaping
- Occupations
- table tennis player
- Biography
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Deng Yaping is a Chinese table tennis player, who won eighteen world championships including four Olympic championships between 1989 and 1997. She is regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.
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Zhang Guoqing
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Zhang Guoqing is a Chinese politician and former corporate executive who has served as vice premier of China since March 2023 and a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party since October 2022.
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Hua Luogeng
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- Studied in 1931-1932
- Occupations
- mathematicianpolitician
- Biography
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Hua Luogeng or Hua Loo-Keng was a Chinese mathematician and politician famous for his contributions to number theory and for his role as the leader of mathematics research and education in the People's Republic of China. He was largely responsible for identifying and nurturing the mathematician Chen Jingrun, who proved Chen's theorem, the best-known result on the Goldbach conjecture. Hua's later work on mathematical optimization and operations research made an enormous impact on China's economy. He was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1982. He was elected a member of the Standing Committee of the 1st through 6th National People's Congresses, Vice-Chairman of the 6th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (April 1985) and vice-chairman of the China Democratic League (1979). He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1979.
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Ye Shiwen
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Ye Shiwen is a Chinese swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she won gold medals in the 400 metres and 200 metres individual medley, breaking the world record in the 400 m event and the Olympic record in the 200 m event.
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Ji Xianlin
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- Studied in 1930-1934
- Occupations
- historianlinguistuniversity teachertranslator
- Biography
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Ji Xianlin was a Chinese Indologist, linguist, paleographer, historian and writer who has been honored by the governments of both India and China. Ji was proficient in many languages including Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, English, German, French, Russian, Pali and Tocharian, and translated many works. He published a memoir, The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, about his persecution during the Cultural Revolution.
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Wen Yiduo
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Wen Yiduo was a Chinese poet and scholar known for his nationalistic poetry. Wen was assassinated by the Kuomintang in 1946.
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Liang Shih-chiu
- Occupations
- writertranslatorartist
- Biography
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Liang Shih-chiu, also romanized as Liang Shiqiu, and also known as Liang Chih-hwa (梁治華), was a renowned Chinese educator, writer, translator, literary theorist and lexicographer.
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Fei Xiaotong
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianwriteranthropologistsociologist
- Biography
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Fei Xiaotong or Fei Hsiao-tung was a Chinese anthropologist and sociologist. He was a pioneering researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology; he was also noted for his studies of China's ethnic groups as well as a social activist. Starting in the late 1930s, he and his colleagues established Chinese sociology and his works were instrumental in laying a foundation for the development of sociological and anthropological studies in China, as well as in introducing social and cultural phenomena of China to the international community. His last post before his death in 2005 was as Professor of Sociology at Peking University.
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Liu Chao-shiuan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Liu Chao-shiuan is a Taiwanese chemist and politician. He is a former president of the National Tsing Hua University (1987–1993) and Soochow University (2004–2008) and a former Premier of the Republic of China (2008–2009).
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Kristie Lu Stout
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Kristie Lu Stout is an American journalist and news anchor for CNN International. She currently hosts the program Marketplace Asia and other feature programs. She previously hosted the daily news show News Stream, which emphasized news connected with technology, and the monthly news discussion programme, On China.
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Zhou Fengsuo
- Occupations
- human rights defender
- Biography
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Zhou Fengsuo is a Chinese human rights activist, investor, and former student leader during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. He was listed number 5 on the government's most wanted and forced into exile in the United States over his role in the student movement. Zhou attained his MBA degree from University of Chicago Booth School of Business and had been working in the finance industry in recent years. He is currently the president of Humanitarian China and Co-founder of the China Human Rights Accountability Center.
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Hu Qiaomu
- Occupations
- journalistsociologistphilosopherpolitician
- Biography
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Hu Qiaomu was a Chinese sociologist, Marxist philosopher and politician.
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Liu Yang
- Occupations
- aircraft pilotastronautpolitician
- Biography
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Liu Yang is a Chinese military transport pilot and taikonaut. On June 16, 2012, Yang became the first Chinese woman in space, as a crew member of Shenzhou 9.
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Wu Han
- Occupations
- historianwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Wu Han was a Chinese historian and politician. Wu was one of the most important historians in the development of modern historical scholarship in China during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Wu Guanzhong
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Wu Guanzhong was a contemporary Chinese painter widely recognized as a founder of modern Chinese painting. He is considered to be one of the greatest contemporary Chinese painters. Wu's artworks display both Western and Eastern influences, such as the Western style of Fauvism and the Eastern style of Chinese calligraphy. Wu painted various aspects of China, including its architecture, plants, animals, people, as well as many of its landscapes and waterscapes, in a style reminiscent of the impressionist painters of the early 1900s. He was also a writer on contemporary Chinese art.
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Yang Jisheng
- Occupations
- historianjournalistopinion journalistwriter
- Biography
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Yang Jisheng is a Chinese journalist and author. His work include Tombstone (墓碑), a comprehensive account of the Great Chinese Famine during the Great Leap Forward, and The World Turned Upside Down (天地翻覆), a history of the Cultural Revolution. Yang joined the Communist Party in 1964 and graduated from Tsinghua University in 1966. He promptly joined Xinhua News Agency, where he worked until his retirement in 2001. His loyalty to the party was destroyed by the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
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Feng Youlan
- Occupations
- historianphilosopherphilosophy historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Feng Youlan was a Chinese philosopher, historian, and writer who was instrumental for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy in the modern era. The name he published under in English was 'Fung Yu-lan,' as used in the Bodde translation of A History of Chinese Philosophy. This earlier spelling also occurs in philosophical discussions, see for example the work of Wing-tsit Chan.
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Jiang Fangzhou
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Jiang Fangzhou is a Chinese writer. She began writing at the age of seven and published her first book at nine, rising to prominence as a “child prodigy”. Upon graduating from Tsinghua University, she became deputy editor-in-chief of New Weekly magazine until her resignation in 2019, after which she became an independent writer.
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Cao Yu
- Occupations
- screenwriterstage actorpoliticianwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Cao Yu was a Chinese playwright, often regarded as one of China's most important playwrights of the 20th century. His best-known works are Thunderstorm (1933), Sunrise (1936) and Peking Man (1940). It is largely through the efforts of Cao Yu that the modern Chinese "spoken theatre" took root in 20th century Chinese literature.
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Qiao Guanhua
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Qiao Guanhua was a politician and diplomat in the People's Republic of China and played an important role in the talks with United States on the opening of China and the drafting of the Shanghai Communiqué.
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Yin Haiguang
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitical punditjournalistphilosopheropinion journalist
- Biography
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Yin Haiguang was a Chinese author, educator and philosopher.
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Wang Weizhong
- Occupations
- hydraulic engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Wang Weizhong is a Chinese politician currently serving as Party Secretary of Inner Mongolia. A graduate of Tsinghua University, Wang rose through the ranks working for the Ministry of Science and Technology. He previously served as the Party Secretary of Taiyuan, Shenzhen and Governor of Guangdong Province.
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Andy Tsang
- Occupations
- police officer
- Biography
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Andy Tsang Wai-hung GBS PDSM PMSM JP is the current Deputy Director of the National Narcotics Control Commission of the Ministry of Public Security of China. He was former Commissioner of the Hong Kong Police Force until 4 May 2015. In November 2019, he missed out a top posting with the United Nations despite the strong support from the People's Republic of China.
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Hu Heping
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hu Heping is a Chinese politician and the current executive deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Previously, he served as the governor and party secretary of Shaanxi province, party secretary of Tsinghua University and Minister of Culture and Tourism.
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Yu Kuo-hwa
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Yu Kuo-hwa was a Taiwanese economist who served as the Premier of the Republic of China from 1984 to 1989.
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Chien Wei-zang
- Occupations
- mathematicianpolitician
- Biography
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Qian Weichang or Chien Wei-zang was a Chinese physicist and applied mathematician, as well as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He served as President of Shanghai University.
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Jing Haipeng
- Occupations
- fighter pilotaircraft pilotastronaut
- Biography
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Jing Haipeng is a major general of the People's Liberation Army Ground Force (PLAGF) in active service as a vice-commander of the 82nd Group Army. A fighter pilot in the PLA Air Force (PLAAF), he was selected to be a PLA Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) astronaut in 1998. He was the first Chinese astronaut to have flown on more than one mission and remains the only one to have flown on four (Shenzhou 7, Shenzhou 9, Shenzhou 11, Shenzhou 16). He also held the Chinese record for longest time spent in space from 2016 to 2021 (47 days) and again from 2023 (201 days), until his record was overtaken by Tang Hongbo in February 2024.
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Hu Feng
- Years
- 1902-1986 (aged 84)
- Occupations
- literary criticwritertranslator
- Biography
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Hu Feng was a Chinese Marxist writer, poet and literary theorist. He was a prominent member of the League of Left-Wing Writers. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Hu Feng became a member of the First National People's Congress of China, but was then heavily persecuted as the chief of the Hu Feng Counter-revolutionary Clique (Chinese: 胡风反革命集团). The persecution became a massive political purge. He was first rehabilitated in 1980 and fully rehabilitated, posthumously, in 1988.
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Ye Qisun
- Occupations
- educatorphysicist
- Biography
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Ye Qisun, also named Ye Hongjuan (叶鸿眷), was a Chinese physicist and one of the founders of modern physics in China.
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Zhongyun Zi
- Occupations
- translatorpolitical scientistuniversity teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Zi Zhongyun is a Chinese translator and historian who is an expert on US studies with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She is proficient in English and French.
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K. C. Wu
- Years
- 1903-1984 (aged 81)
- Occupations
- historianpolitician
- Biography
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K. C. Wu was a Chinese political figure and writer. Among other offices, he served as Mayor of Shanghai and as Chairman of the Taiwan Provincial Government.
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Yin Yong
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yin Yong is a Chinese banker and politician who is the mayor of Beijing, in office since 28 October 2022. Previously, he served as deputy party secretary of Beijing, vice mayor of Beijing, and vice governor of People's Bank of China.
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Zhu Chen
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
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Zhu Chen is a Chinese and Qatari chess grandmaster. In 1999, she became China's second women's world chess champion after Xie Jun, and China's 13th Grandmaster. In 2006, she obtained Qatari citizenship and since then has played for Qatar.
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Hao Jingfang
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- In 2013 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in economics
- Occupations
- writerscience fiction writernovelistessayist
- Biography
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Hao Jingfang is a Chinese science fiction writer. She won the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Folding Beijing, translated by Ken Liu.
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Zhu Fenglian
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Zhu Fenglian is a Chinese diplomat who is currently serving as deputy director and spokesperson of the information bureau at the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council.
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Qian Sanqiang
- Occupations
- nuclear physicistphysicist
- Biography
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Qian Sanqiang, also known as Tsien San-Tsiang, was a Chinese nuclear physicist and among the leading scientists of the Two Bombs, One Satellite program. Due to his central role in the development of China's nuclear industry and nuclear weapons program, he is referred to as the "father of China's atomic bomb". Coincidentally, China's first atomic bomb test was conducted on Qian's 51st birthday.
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Chen Wei
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- military personnelepidemiologist
- Biography
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Chen Wei is a Chinese epidemiologist and virologist specializing in biodefense, and is currently working as a researcher and doctoral advisor at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). In September 2021, The Globe and Mail reported that Chen is also a major general in China's People's Liberation Army.
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Jin Yuelin
- Occupations
- university teacherlogicianphilosopher
- Biography
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Jin Yuelin or Chin Yueh-Lin was a Chinese philosopher best known for three works, one each on logic, metaphysics, and epistemology. He was also a commentator on Bertrand Russell.
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Lou Jiwei
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lou Jiwei, is a Chinese politician, and current director of the 13th CPPCC Foreign Affairs Committee. Lou was Chairman of China's National Council for Social Security Fund, Minister for Finance, Chairman of China Investment Corporation and Central Huijin Investment, Vice Minister of Finance of China and Vice-Governor of Guizhou.
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Xiong Xianghui
- Occupations
- diplomatspy
- Biography
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Xiong Xianghui was a Chinese Communist Party spy during the Chinese Civil War, and, after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, a high-ranking official in diplomacy and intelligence. He played a role in the victory of the Chinese Communist Party over the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, in his capacity as private secretary and aide-de-camp to Hu Zongnan, one of the most senior Nationalist generals; Xiong was secretly a Communist mole and for many years passed highly sensitive information to the Communist Party leadership, including top-secret orders and documents of Chiang Kai-Shek.
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Jia Chunwang
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jia Chunwang is a Chinese politician, intelligence officer, and prosecutor who held top positions in both the security apparatus and judiciary of the People's Republic of China. He served as Minister of State Security for 13 years (1985–1998), as Minister of Public Security (1998–2002) and finally as the procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (2003–2008).
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Lao An
- Years
- 1929-.. (age 97)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lao An is a retired Chinese business executive who once served as vice chairwoman of the China International Engineering Consulting Corporation. She is the wife of former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji.
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Wang Li
- Occupations
- translatorlexicographerlinguistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Wang Li, courtesy name Wang Liaoyi (王了一) and birth name Wang Xiangying (王祥瑛), was a Chinese linguist, educator, translator and poet, described as the founder of Chinese linguistics. His work expands a wide range in Chinese linguistics, including phonology, grammar and lexicography, historical linguistics and dialectal studies. He was also the founder of the first Chinese Linguistics Department at Tsinghua University. He brought the western modern linguistic methodologies back to China and strove for the modernization and reformation of Chinese grammar throughout his whole life. His most famous books include Zhongguo Yinyunxue 中国音韵学 (Chinese Phonology), Zhongguo Wenfa Chutan 中国文法初探 (An Exploratory Study of Chinese Grammar), and Wang Li Guhanyu Zidian 王力古汉语字典 (Wang Li's Character Dictionary of Ancient Chinese).
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Tsiang Tingfu
- Occupations
- diplomathistorianjournalist
- Biography
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Tsiang Tingfu, was a historian and diplomat of the Republic of China who published in English under the name T.F. Tsiang.
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Zhao Jiuzhang
- Occupations
- physicistmeteorologist
- Biography
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Zhao Jiuzhang, also known as Jeou Jang Jaw, was a Chinese meteorologist and physicist. He was a pioneer of Chinese space technology and is considered as a founding father of China's satellite program.
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Chung-Yao Chao
- Occupations
- nuclear physicistphysicist
- Biography
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Chung-Yao Chao was a Chinese theoretical physicist. He studied the scattering of gamma rays in lead by pair production in 1930, without knowing that positrons were involved in the anomalously high scattering cross-section. When the positron was discovered by Carl David Anderson in 1932, confirming the existence of Paul Dirac's "antimatter", it became clear that positrons could explain Chung-Yao Chao's earlier experiments, with the gamma rays being emitted from electron-positron annihilation.
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Huang Tzu
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Huang Tzu, courtesy name Jinwu (Chinese: 今吾; pinyin: Jīnwú; Wade–Giles: Chin-wu), was a Chinese composer of the early 20th century.
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Hafsat Abiola
- Occupations
- human rights defender
- Biography
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Hafsat Olaronke Abiola-Costello, Listen in Lagos, is a Nigerian human rights, civil rights and democracy activist, founder of the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND), which seeks to strengthen civil society and promote democracy in Nigeria. She is President of Women in Africa Initiative (WIA), an international platform for the economic development and support of African women entrepreneurs. She is also one of the founders of Connected Women Leaders (CWL).
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Yang Qian
- Occupations
- sport shooter
- Biography
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Yang Qian is a Chinese sport shooter. She represented China at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in summer of 2021, where she won two gold medals.
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Yang Weize
- Occupations
- politician
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Yang Weize is a former Chinese politician. He was the Party Secretary of Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that, he served as the party secretary in the neighbouring city of Wuxi for seven years, and before that the Mayor of Suzhou. In 2015, Yang was put under investigation for corruption by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. He was tried and convicted on corruption charges and sentenced to twelve years and six months in prison in December 2016.
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Wang Xing
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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Wang Xing is a Chinese businessman, who co-founded Meituan and has been serving as chief executive officer of Meituan since January 2010. He previously served as chief executive officer of Fanfou from 2007 to 2010.
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Mao Yisheng
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
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Dr. Mao Yisheng a.k.a. Thomson Eason Mao was a Chinese structural engineer and social activist. He was one of the most famous Chinese structural engineers, a pioneer in bridge construction, and a social activist.
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Yang Yang
- Occupations
- short-track speed skaterpolitician
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Yang Yang is a Chinese sports administrator, retired short track speed skater, and businesswoman. She is a two-time Olympic Champion from 2002 Winter Olympics and a six-time Overall World Champion for 1997–2002. Known as Yang Yang (A), she was formerly a member of the Chinese national short track team. Yang is one of the most accomplished short track speed skaters of all time having won 34 world titles, including six Overall World Championships. She is the first person to have won six Overall World Titles and won six consecutively. Her victory in the women's 500 m short track at the 2002 Winter Olympics made her China's first-ever Winter Olympics gold medalist. She added a second gold in the women's 1000 m short track at the same Games and has also won two silver and a bronze medal. Yang retired after 2003 World Championships but was persuaded to return as a player-coach during 2004–2005 season to prepare for 2006 Winter Olympics where she won the bronze medal in 1000m race. She retired again after the Games.
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Ni Yuefeng
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ni Yuefeng is a Chinese politician who is the current party secretary of Hebei, in office since April 2022. Previously he served as head and party branch secretary of the General Administration of Customs and before that, party secretary of Fuzhou and deputy party secretary of Fujian.
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Wang Ganchang
- Occupations
- nuclear physicistpoliticianphysicist
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Wang Ganchang was a Chinese nuclear physicist. He was one of the founding fathers of Chinese nuclear physics, cosmic rays and particle physics. Wang was also a leader in the fields of detonation physics experiments, anti-electromagnetic pulse technology, nuclear explosion detection, anti-nuclear radiation technology, and laser stimulated nuclear explosion technologies.
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Zhou Peiyuan
- Occupations
- theoretical physicist
- Biography
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Zhou Peiyuan was a Chinese theoretical physicist and politician. He served as president of Peking University, and was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
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He Zehui
- Occupations
- nuclear physicistphysicist
- Biography
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Professor He Zehui or Ho Zah-wei was a Chinese nuclear physicist who worked with Walther Bothe in Nazi Germany during World War II and with Irène Joliot-Curie in Paris, and later helped develop the Chinese nuclear programme. She is credited with discovering the phenomenon of elastic collision between positrons and electrons by 1945, and – jointly with her husband Qian Sanqiang – ternary and quaternary fission in the uranium nucleus in 1946.
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Zeng Peiyan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Zeng Peiyan is a Chinese politician. He was a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2007 and was a vice premier from 2003 to 2008.
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Kang Hui
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- journalisttelevision presenter
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Kang Hui is a Chinese news anchor for China Central Television, the main state announcer of China. He is now the President of the Broadcast, China Central Television.
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Eric P. Xing
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- 1988-1993 graduated with Bachelor of Science in physics
- Occupations
- computer scientistartificial intelligence researcheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Eric Poe Xing is an American computer scientist who has been serving as president of Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) since January 2021. He is also a professor in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science.
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Qiu Yong
- Occupations
- educatorprofessor
- Biography
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Qiu Yong is a Chinese chemist. He is the current party secretary of Tsinghua University. Qiu is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Wang Junzheng
- Occupations
- politicianofficial
- Biography
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Wang Junzheng is a Chinese politician, serving Party Secretary of Tibet since 18 October 2021. He was head of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Xinjiang. Between 2016 and 2019, he was the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Changchun. Prior to his position in Changchun, he served in a variety of posts, as vice-governor of Hubei, the Party Secretary of Xiangyang, and the mayor and party chief of Lijiang.
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Xie Zhenhua
- Occupations
- politicianminister
- Biography
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Xie Zhenhua is a Chinese politician who served as vice-chairman of China's top economic development body, the National Development and Reform Commission as well as serving as China's special climate envoy.
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Hua Jianmin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hua Jianmin is a Chinese politician. He served as state councillor and secretary general of the State Council, president of the China National School of Administration, and vice chairman of the standing committee of the 11th National People's Congress.
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Tang Yongtong
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- historianphilosopher
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Tang Yongtong was a Chinese educator, philosopher and scholar best known for studying Chinese Buddhism. Tang was proficient in Sanskrit, Pali, English and Japanese.
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Richard Tsoi
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Richard Tsoi Yiu-cheong is a Hong Kong politician and the former vice-chairman of the Democratic Party. He ran for many Legislative Council and District Council elections and was elected as Sha Tin District Councillor in 2003. On March 5, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Tsoi resigned from duties after joint petition from colleagues against his criticism of local restaurants being discriminatory towards Mainland Chinese.
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Li Ji
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- anthropologistarchaeologistart historianuniversity teacher
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Li Ji, also commonly romanized as Li Chi, was an influential Chinese archaeologist. He is considered to be one of the foremost figures in modern Chinese archaeology and his work was instrumental in proving the historical authenticity of the Shang dynasty.
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Wang Xiqin
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- 1986-1991 graduated with Bachelor of Engineering
- 1991-1996 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- scientistprofessor
- Biography
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Wang Xiqin is a Chinese electronic engineer and academic administrator who served as the president of Tsinghua University from February 2022 to December 2023. He was replaced by Li Luming with the approval of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Xuedong D. Huang
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineer
- Biography
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Xuedong David Huang is a Chinese-American computer scientist and technology executive who has made contributions to spoken language processing and artificial intelligence, including Azure AI Services. He is Zoom's chief technology officer after serving as Microsoft's Technical Fellow and Azure AI Chief Technology Officer for 30 years. Huang is a strong advocate of AI for Accessibility, and AI for Cultural Heritage.
