Long Yuqiu


Long Yuqiu was a Chinese engineer who was a professor at Tsinghua University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography

Long was born in Anhua County, Hunan, on 15 January 1926. In 1944, he was admitted to Tangshan Jiaotong University, and transferred to National Southwestern Associated University a year later. In 1946, he entered Tsinghua University, where he majored in the Department of Civil Engineering.
After graduating in 1948, Long stayed at the university and worked successively as assistant research fellow, assistant, instructor, and professor. During the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to do farm works in Liyuzhou Farm in the suburb of Nanchang, Jiangxi province.
On 22 December 2022, Long died in Beijing, at the age of 96.

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