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Biography

Zhou Ganshi, male, Han nationality, is a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.
He graduated from Qinghua University in 1952.

Zhou Ganshi presided over the addition, and overall planning, of Xi'an City soon after the establishment of the People's Republic of China and set a model for early city planning in China. Zhao participated, led, and organized the addition planning of Shanghai City and Tangshan City after earthquakes, and the reconstruction planning of Tianjin City.

Zhou guided the overall planning of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. He studied in depth the issue of house construction, city traffic, and old city reconstruction and pushed for the comprehensive management of traffic in large cities. He detailed his ideas of improved depth and scope of city planning in the guidance principle of city construction in rotation, flexibility, depth and detail.

Zhou is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.