Chen Zhangliang (; born February 3, 1961,

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) graduated from the South China College of Tropical Crops (now

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) in 1983, and then was sent to study in the United States by the Chinese Government. He finished his Ph.D. in

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. After he returned to China in 1987, he worked in

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as dean of faculty of biology and chair of school of life science. He became the vice president of Peking University in 1995, and president of

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in 2002. He became vice-governor of Guangxi in 2007.

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