| Office1: | President of Beijing Normal University | ||||||
| Term Start1: | April 2001 | ||||||
| Term End1: | July 2012 | ||||||
| 1Blankname1: | Party Secretary | ||||||
| 1Namedata1: | Liu Chuansheng Cheng Jianping | ||||||
| Predecessor1: | Yuan Guiren | ||||||
| Zhong Binglin | |||||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||||
| Birth Date: | July 1951 | ||||||
| Birth Place: | Beijing, China | ||||||
| Death Place: | Beijing, China | ||||||
| Party: | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
| Alma Mater: | Southeast University Cardiff University | ||||||
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Zhong Binglin (; July 1951 – 7 April 2024) was a Chinese university administrator and politician who served as president of Beijing Normal University from 2001 to 2012. He was a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was a member of the 11th and 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Zhong was born in Beijing in July 1951.[1] After graduating from Beijing No. 4 High School in 1969, he became a sent-down youth in Yan'an, a birthplace of the Communist revolution in northwest China's Shaanxi province.[1] In 1973, he enrolled at Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University), where he majored in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.[1] After graduation, he stayed for teaching.[1] He was promoted to associate professor in 1988 and to full professor in 1992.[1] In 1990, he was sent to Cardiff University to study at the expense of the government, where he earned doctor of philosophy degree.[1] He returned to China in 1994 and that year became vice president of Southeast University.[1]
In September 1996, he was appointed director of the Higher Education Department of the National Education Commission (now Ministry of Education).[1]
In April 2001, he was chosen as president of Beijing Normal University, a position he held until July 2012.[1]
Zhong died on 7 April 2024, at the age of 72.[2] [3]