Cheng Zhiqing (; July 1934 – 12 February 2019) was a Chinese chemist and politician. She served as vice chairwoman of

Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

People's Congress and vice chairwoman of the

Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang The Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK; also commonly known, especially when referenced historically, as the Left Kuomintang or Left Guomindang), commonly abbreviated in Chinese as Minge (), is one of the eight minor Democ ...

(RCCK).

Biography

Cheng was born in July 1934 in

Qingdao Qingdao, Mandarin: , (Qingdao Mandarin: t͡ɕʰiŋ˧˩ tɒ˥) is a prefecture-level city in the eastern Shandong Province of China. Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, Qingdao was long an important fortress. In 1897, the city was ceded to G ...

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, with her

ancestral home An ancestral home is the place of origin of one's extended family, particularly the home owned and preserved by the same family for several generations. The term can refer to an individual house or estate, or to a broader geographic area such as a ...

Yingcheng Yingcheng () is a county-level city of about 500,000 inhabitants in Xiaogan, eastern Hubei Hubei is a province of China, province in Central China. It has the List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by GDP, seventh-largest economy among C ...

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. She studied at

Peking University Peking University (PKU) is a Public university, public Types of universities and colleges in China#By designated academic emphasis, university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of the Peop ...

from 1952 to 1953, and was then selected to study in the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

. She studied chemistry at

Herzen University Herzen University, or formally the Russian State Pedagogical University in the name of A. I. Herzen () is a university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was formerly known as the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute. It is one of the largest ...

from 1954 to 1956, and then at the University of Leningrad from 1956 to 1959. She returned to China in 1959 and worked at the Institute of Chemistry of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS; ) is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China. It is the world's largest research organization, with 106 research i ...

until 1973. In that year, she was transferred to the Guangdong Provincial Institute of Testing and Analysis (广东省测试分析研究所). She worked there until 1989, rising from assistant researcher to researcher, and eventually vice president. From 1982 to 1984 she was a visiting scholar at the Chemistry Department of the

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in the United States. In 1989, she was appointed vice director of the Science Committee of

Province. After 1993, she served as vice chairwoman of Guangdong People's Congress. She joined the

(RCCK) in 1986. She served as chairwoman of RCCK's Guangdong Provincial Committee and vice chairwoman of the RCCK Central Committee for three terms (8th, 9th, and 10th). Cheng died on 12 February 2019 in

Guangzhou Guangzhou, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, southern China. Located on the Pearl River about nor ...

, at the age of 84.

References

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