Zhong Xunzheng (; 9 July 1929 – 22 June 2023) was a Chinese architect, and an academician of the

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Biography

Zhong was born in Wugang County (now Wugang),

Hunan Hunan is an inland Provinces of China, province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the Administrative divisions of China, province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Gu ...

, on 9 July 1929. In 1948, he enrolled at National Central University, and graduated from Nanjing University (now

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) in 1952. After university, he taught at

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and soon moved to the Water Conservancy College of

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the next year. In November 1954, he joined the faculty of Nanjing Institute of Technology (now

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). Zhong died in

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on 22 June 2023, at the age of 93.

Honours and awards

* November 1997 Member of the

(CAE)

References

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