Zhang Xingqian

Zhang Xingqian (; 16 October 1921 – 29 July 2022) was a Chinese metal physicist who was a professor at the China Academy of Engineering Physics, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography Zhang was born in Wuyi County, Zhili (now Hebei), on 16 October 1921. In 1935, he was accepted to the Mechanical Engineering Department of Higher Vocational School of Hebei Institute of Technology (now Hebei University of Technology) in Tianjin. In the summer of 1936, he dropped out of school and went south to Shanghai, and enrolled at Jiangsu Provincial Shanghai High School. In the autumn of 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army occupied Shanghai. After refusing the solicitation of the Kuomintang spy, he endured malaria and applied for university in Wuhan. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in March 1940.

Honours and awards 1982 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class) 1985 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Special) 1991 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) 2002 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation