Zhi Bingyi

Zhi Bingyi (; 19 September 1911 – 24 July 1993) was a Chinese scientist in the fields of telecommunications engineering, measuring instrument and Chinese character encoding. He was one of the earliest figures in Chinese history to have contributed to the science of characters computer processing. He has been hailed by many as "Chinese characters information processing pioneer". He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography Zhi was born into a highly educated family in Taizhou County, Jiangsu, on 19 September 1911, while ancestral home in Zhenjiang. He secondary studied at Taizhou High School. In 1931, he was accepted to Zhejiang University, where he majored in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He also participated in the development of the first 5-bit DC digital voltmeter in China in the 1960s. In 1964, he was transferred to the Shanghai Institute of Electrical Instruments (; later reshuffled as Shanghai Instrument Research Institute ), where he successively served as chief engineer, deputy director, director, and honorary director. In September 1969, he was released from prison to house arrest. He was supervised to sweep the floor, clean the lathe, and then worked as a waste warehouse keeper. In his spare time, he used six years to invent the coding method of Jian Zi Shi Ma , which made a great contribution to Chinese character coding and Chinese character information processing.

He joined the Communist Party in May 1991.

On 24 July 1993, he died of illness in Shanghai, aged 81.

Honours and awards 1980 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)