Gu Zhen'an


Gu Zhen'an was a Chinese engineer, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography

Gu was born in Wuxi County, Jiangsu, on 16 November 1936. He attended Wuxi No. 1 High School. In 1954, he entered East China University of Chemical Technology, where he majored in silicate.
After graduating in 1958, Gu was assigned to China Building Materials Research Institute. He stayed there for 16 years, interspersed with a year at Lanzhou Glass Factory and two years at the May Seventh Cadre Schools. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in November 1982. In January 1986, he was appointed director of the National Quartz Glass Quality Supervision Center, a post he kept until January 1997.
On 22 December 2022, Gu died in Beijing, at the age of 86.

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