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Biography Revised: 10/17/2006
Career Data Updated: 10/17/2006

PHOTO: Xie Kechang
Xie Kechang 谢克昌
President of the Taiyuan University of Technology
Born: 1946
Birthplace: Shanxi Province

Biography

Xie Kechang, male, Han nationality, is a native of Shanxi province. He was born in 1946, and graduated from the chemistry department of Tianjing University. In 1981, he obtained his master's degree from Taiyuan Institute of Technology and in 1999, he received a doctorate in engineering from Shin-Shu University of Japan. He is a professor at Taiyuan University of Technology, and became president of the university in 1995.

Xie Kechang is the chair scientist of the state program's 973 project on "Fundamental Research about Coal Pyrolysis, Gasification and Purification Process of High Temperatures". He has published 421 academic papers and obtained four patents for invention. He has issued eight patents and published three monographs, including "The Coal Structure and Reaction", which is the first monograph in the field of coal chemical engineering.

Career Data

2003— Member, 10th CPPCC, National Committee, Standing Committee
Member, State Academic Degrees Committee
1998—2003 Member, 9th CPPCC, National Committee, Standing Committee
1995— President, Taiyuan University of Technology Shanxi Province, Taiyuan City
1994—1995 Vice-President, Taiyuan University of Technology Shanxi Province, Taiyuan City
1993—1994 Assistant President, Taiyuan University of Technology Shanxi Province, Taiyuan City
1985—1993 Director, Shanxi Province, Taiyuan City (Taiyuan University of Technology, Coal Science and Technology Key Laboratory)
Graduate, Tianjin University, Chemistry Department Tianjin Municipality


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