Fan Weitang


Fan Weitang was a Chinese engineer and politician who served as vice minister of coal industry from 1993 to 1995, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Fan was a member of the 8th and 9th National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Biography

Fan was born in Beijing, on 18 July 1935, while his ancestral home is in Ezhou, Hubei. His father Fan Zhilun was a water conservancy educator, and his younger brother is also a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. After graduating from the Mining Department of Beijing Iron and Steel University in 1956, he went to study at Beijing University of Foreign Languages and Beijing Institute of Mining. In 1959, he did his postgraduate work at Moscow Institute of Mining in the Soviet Union.
Fan returned to China in 1963 and became a member of the China Coal Research Institute. He was chief engineer of the in 1986 and subsequently vice minister in 1993.
On 1 January 2023, Fan died from COVID-19 in Beijing, at the age of 87.

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