Liu Shouren


Liu Shouren was a Chinese engineer specializing in wool, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He has been hailed as the "Father of Chinese Fine Wool Sheep".
Liu was a representative of the 12th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and 13th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a delegate to the 9th and 10th National People's Congress.

Biography

Liu was born in the town of, Jingjiang, Jiangsu, on 21 March 1934. His father was an engineer at a textile factory in the Suzhou. He had six sisters. He attended Jingjiang Xiyin Middle School and Wu County High School. In 1951, he enrolled at Zhejiang University. In 1952, the Animal Husbandry Department of Zhejiang University was incorporated into Nanjing Agricultural College, and Liu became a student of Nanjing Agricultural University.
After university in 1955, with the support of his father, he signed up to support the construction of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and engaged in animal husbandry for a long time, and successively served as a technician, manager, and chief animal husbandry officer. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in June 1960. He rose to become president of in 1988, and then honorary president in 1995. In January 2000, he was hired as a professor and doctoral supervisor of Shihezi University.
Liu died in Shihezi, Xinjiang on 11 June 2023, at the age of 89.

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