Jiang Yiyuan


Jiang Yiyuan was a Chinese agricultural engineer and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was a member of the Chinese Society for Agricultural Machinery and Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering.

Biography

Jiang was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu, on November 17, 1928. His father was a merchant. He attended Zhengheng High School. In 1946 he enrolled at the University of Nanking, where he graduated in 1950. After university, he was hired as a teacher at Northeast Agricultural University, where he successively served as lecturer, associate professor, and professor. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1956. In 1957, he was sent to the Soviet Union to study at, studying mechanical theory under M. H. Ledoshniev. In 1982, he became a senior visiting scholar at Michigan State University. He died of illness in Harbin, Heilongjiang, on February 24, 2020, aged 91.

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