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Shao Xiangguang, male, Han nationality, is a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from Zhejiang University in 1932 and obtained a metallurgical master's degree from London University in 1937. Shao is a steel metallurgist and is considered an expert on steel engineering technology.

Shao's steel engineering background stems from his academic studies as well as time spent as a professor and advisor for the Steel Research General Institute. He presided over the design, construction, and production of a Martin furnace steel-making mill and helped Anshan Steel Works resume production. In the late 1940s, he devised production technology as well as a research and development system for the first generation of large-scale steel works in China. Shao also directed foundation laying work of technical management for large-scale steel united enterprises.

At the research institute, he guided a series of scientific research projects focusing on the aspects of metallurgical reaction, new metallurgical technology, vacuum melting, and the synthetic utilization of iron ore resources. He won the China Science and Technology Guanghua Award in 1998.

Shao was elected as an academician to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955.