Li Yuanyuan (engineer)

Li Yuanyuan (born 3 October 1958) is a Chinese engineer who is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, former president of South China University of Technology, Jilin University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and currently party secretary of Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

He was a delegate to the 9th and 12th National People's Congress.

Biography Li was born in Mei County (now Meixian District of Meizhou), Guangdong, on 3 October 1958. In October 1973, he became a sent-down youth during the Down to the Countryside Movement. In 1978, he attended Hunan University, graduating in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in foundry science. He was president of Jilin University from September 2011 to October 2018, a position at vice-ministerial level. In May 2012, he was admitted to member of the standing committee of the Chinese Communist Party's Jilin Provincial Committee, the province's top authority. He took office as present of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in October 2018, and was promoted to CCP committee secretary, the top political position in the university, in October 2021.

Honours and awards 2013 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)