| Chang Yinfo | |
| Native Name: | 常印佛 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Birth Date: | 6 July 1931 |
| Birth Place: | Taixing County, Jiangsu, China |
| Death Place: | Hefei, Anhui, China |
| Fields: | Mineral deposit geology |
| Workplaces: | Anhui Provincial Geological Bureau |
| Alma Mater: | Tsinghua University |
| Spouse: | Wang Deyong |
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Chang Yinfo (; 6 July 1931 – 27 April 2024) was a Chinese mineral deposit geologist, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Chang was a representative of the 13th, 14th, and 15th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.
Chang was born in Taixing County (now Taixing), Jiangsu, on 6 July 1931, to Chang Yisheng, and Zhu Zhuoyuan, both were teachers.[1] [2] He attended Taixing County Private Yanling Middle School, Taixing County Middle School, Zhenjiang High School, and the Affiliated High School of Nanjing Central University.[2] In 1949, he was admitted to Tsinghua University, where he majored in geology.[2]
After graduating in 1952, he was assigned to the Tongling No. 321 Geological Team and was transferred to the Geological and Mineral Resources Department of East China Geological Bureau in July 1955.[3] He moved back to the Tongling No. 321 Geological Team in December 1957, and was promoted to chief engineer in September 1960.[3] He was despatched to Anhui Provincial Geological Bureau in September 1977.[3] He moved up the ranks to become deputy chief engineer in October 1978 and chief engineer in 1982.[3]
In 2002, the University of Science and Technology of China recruited him as Dean of the School of Earth and Space Sciences.
Chang married Wang Deyong on 8 June 1957, they had a son and two daughters together. On 27 April 2024, he died in Hefei, Anhui, at the age of 92.[4] [5]