| Xue Yuqun | |
| Native Name: | 薛禹群 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Birth Date: | 2 November 1931 |
| Birth Place: | Wuxi, Jiangsu, China |
| Death Place: | Shanghai, China |
| Fields: | Hydrogeology |
| Workplaces: | Nanjing University |
| Alma Mater: | Southwest Jiaotong University Jilin University |
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Xue Yuqun (; 2 November 1931 – 29 June 2021) was a Chinese hydrogeologist. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[1]
Xue was born into a wealthy and highly educated family in the town of Yuqi, Wuxi, Jiangsu, on 2 November 1931. His uncle was a politician. His uncle Sun Yefang was an economist.[2] His elder female cousin is a microbiologist. His younger male cousin is a physicist and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He secondary studied at Private Wuxi High School (now Wuxi No.3 High School). In 1949, he was accepted to Tangshan Institute of Technology (now Southwest Jiaotong University).[1] After graduating in 1952, he joined Nanjing University as an assistant. In 1955, he entered Changchun Institute of Geology (now Jilin University), studying geology with the tutor of Moscow Institute of Geological Exploration.[1] He was a visiting scholar at the University of Arizona between 1982 and 1984. He was promoted to associate professor in 1986. He died of illness in Shanghai, on 29 June 2021, aged 89.[3]