Xie Kechang
Xie Kechang | |
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| Chinese: 谢克昌 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 5, 1946 Taiyuan, Shanxi, China |
| Party | Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (2010–2014) |
| Alma mater | Tianjin University Shinshu University |
| Occupation | Chemical engineer, academic administrator |
Xie Kechang (Chinese: 谢克昌; born October 5, 1946) is a Chinese coal chemical engineer. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a foreign member of the United States National Academy of Engineering. He is a professor at Taiyuan University of Technology and serves as a vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Strategic Advisory Institute.[1]
Biography
Xie Kechang was born in October 1946 in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, with ancestral roots in Wutai County, Xinzhou, Shanxi. He completed his secondary education at Taiyuan No. 5 Middle School before enrolling at Tianjin University, where he studied polymer chemistry in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He graduated in 1968 with a bachelor's degree.[2]
Following graduation, Xie worked as a technician in chemical plants and industrial bureaus in Huanghua, Hebei Province, from 1968 to 1978. In 1978, he resumed higher education at Taiyuan Institute of Technology (now Taiyuan University of Technology), specializing in catalysis within the chemical engineering discipline. He obtained his master's degree in 1981 and subsequently joined the faculty of the institute.[3]
Between 1983 and 1985, Xie served as a visiting scholar at the University of South Carolina in the United States.[4] He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1986 and was later appointed deputy director of the Coal Chemical Engineering Research Institute at Taiyuan Institute of Technology, where he became a professor.[5] From 1993 onward, he assumed successive administrative roles including assistant president, vice president, and president of the university.[6] Following institutional restructuring, he served as president and deputy party secretary of Taiyuan University of Technology from 1997 to 2010.[7][8]
In 1999, Xie earned a doctoral degree in engineering from Shinshu University in Japan. He joined the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang in 1997 and has been active in science and technology policy consultation.[9] In 2003, he was elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering, becoming the first academician in coal chemical engineering in China and the first locally trained academician from Shanxi Province.[10]
From 2010 to 2014, Xie served as vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. In 2013, he was elected a foreign member of the United States National Academy of Engineering. In November 2022, he was named a Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society.[11]
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- ^ 山西通志: 教育志. 第三十七卷 (in Chinese). 中华书局. 1999. p. 968. ISBN 978-7-101-02172-1. Retrieved 2026-01-20.
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- ^ "盘点：民主党派中的两院院士——人民政协网". 人民政协网 (in Chinese). 2018-05-30. Retrieved 2026-01-20.