Du Ruiqing

Du Ruiqing (; December 1943 – 20 November 2019) was a Chinese translator, educator, and academic administrator. He was a founder of Australian studies in China. He served as president of Xi'an Foreign Languages Institute from 1998 to 2005. He edited the New Century Chinese-English Dictionary , and was conferred the 4th Lifetime Achievement Award by the China Dictionary Society.

Background Du was born in December 1943 in Fufeng County, Shaanxi, Republic of China. He graduated from the Department of English of Xi'an Foreign Languages Institute (now Xi'an International Studies University) in September 1967, and later became a faculty member of the institute. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1972.

After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Du was one of the first nine people sent by the Chinese government to study in Australia in 1979. He earned a master's degree in English literature from the University of Sydney in 1981. He subsequently studied at Brigham Young University in the United States, where he obtained his Ph.D.