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Office1:Member of the 9th and 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Term Start1:1998
Term End1:2008
1Blankname1:Chairman
1Namedata1:Li Ruihuan
Jia Qinglin
Office2:Alternate Member of the 13th and 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Term Start2:1987
Term End2:1997
1Blankname2:General Secretary
1Namedata2:Zhao Ziyang
Jiang Zemin
Office3:Delegate to the 6th National People's Congress
Term Start3:1983
Term End3:1988
1Blankname3:Chairman
1Namedata3:Peng Zhen
Zeng Qingcun
Native Name:曾庆存
Native Name Lang:zh
Birth Date:1935 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Yangjiang County, Guangdong, Republic of China
Party:Chinese Communist Party
Alma Mater:Peking University
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Fields:Meteorology
Workplaces:Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Doctoral Advisor:Ilya Kibel
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Zeng Qingcun (born 4 May 1935) is a Chinese meteorologist and politician, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[1] He was a member of the 9th and 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a delegate to the 6th National People's Congress. He was an alternate member of the 13th and 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[2]

Biography

Zeng was born into a poor farmer's family in Yangjiang County, Guangdong, on 4 May 1935, during the Republic of China.[3] He secondary studied at Liangyang High School. In 1952, he enrolled in Peking University, majoring in meteorology, where he graduated in 1956.[3] [4] In November 1956, he was sent abroad to study at the Institute of Geophysics of the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Union (now Russian Academy of Sciences) at the expense of the government, obtaining a vice-doctorate under the direction of Ilya Kibel in 1961.[3]

Zeng returned to China in 1961 and that same year was assigned to the Institute of Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he successively worked as assistant researcher and researcher.[3] In January 1961, he was transferred to the newly founded Institute of Atmospheric Physics, in which he moved up the ranks to become director in 1984.[5] He was a senior visiting scholar at Princeton University between December 1980 and April 1982. In 1995, he was proposed as president of China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM), succeeding Xiao Shutie. In 1998, he was unanimously chosen as president of China Meteorological Society which he held only from 1998 to 2002, although he remained as president of China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics until 2000.

Honours and awards

Notes and References

  1. News: Pic story of China's top science awardee Zeng Qingcun . 6 November 2021 . chinadaily.com . 11 January 2020.
  2. News: http://cpc.people.com.cn/GB/64162/64168/64566/65447/4441807.html . zh:十三届中央委员会候补委员名单(110人) . people.com.cn . 2018 . 6 November 2021 . zh.
  3. News: Ma, Jia . Zeng Qingcun: Serving the Nation with Scientific Research . 6 November 2021 . chinatoday.com . 1 March 2021.
  4. News: Ding Jia (Chinese: 丁佳). https://www.cas.cn/ky/kjjl/gjzgkxjsj/2019/zqc/zqcmtbd/202001/t20200116_4731873.shtml . zh:【中国科学报】曾庆存:大气人生抒远志 . Chinese Academy of Sciences . 13 January 2020 . 6 November 2021 . zh.
  5. News: Cao Xiuying (Chinese: 操秀英). https://www.cas.cn/ky/kjjl/gjzgkxjsj/2019/zqc/zqcmtbd/202001/t20200116_4731872.shtml . zh:【科技日报】曾庆存:气象万千映丹心 . Chinese Academy of Sciences . 13 January 2020 . 6 November 2021 . zh.