Chen Guanrong, male, Han nationality, is a native of Shanghai. He was born in 1915, graduated from Qinghua University in 1936, received a master from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1948 and joined the CPC in 1953.
Chen Guanrong led the design of dozens of chemical plants in Vietnam and nitrogen fertilizer plants in Albania. He also led and participated in the development of new technologies, such as the new gas purification process for ammonia synthesis from coal and PVC process modification. After 1987, he organized and directed the projects of coal gasification cooling water treatment.
Chen is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.