Chen Jing (engineer)


Chen Jing was a Chinese specialist in precious metal metallurgy, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography

Chen was born into a highly educated family, in Dali County, Yunnan, on 9 March 1935. He attended Yunnan Provincial Dali Middle School. In 1954, he entered Yunnan University, where he majored in chemistry.
After university in September 1958, Chen was assigned to work at the Kunming Workstation under the Shanghai Institute of Metallurgical Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he successively served as an assistant researcher, deputy director of the Metallurgical Research Office, deputy researcher, and researcher. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in May 1960. He joined the faculty of the School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Yunnan University, in 2005.
On 1 June 2024, Chen died in Kunming, Yunnan, at the age of 89.

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