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Hans Tang
Tang Yuhan, or Hans Tang (; 1913 – 25 May 2014) was a Hong Kong-Chinese oncologist and businessman. He founded the Sino-Belgium Cancer Hospital of Radiation Therapy in Shanghai and served as president of the Hong Kong Chinese Medical Association (香港中華醫學會) and the founder of Tang Fund (湯氏基金). Life Early life Tang was born in Zhenhai, Zhejiang, China. He entered elementary school in Ningbo, and spent part of his childhood in Shanghai. He obtained his first M.D. from Shanghai Medical College (now the medical school of Fudan University). He then went to Western Europe and continued his study in medicine, especially in cancer therapy. He obtained his second doctor's degree from the Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968), Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He subsequently returned to Shanghai and served as president of the Sino-Belgian Radium Institute, the first cancer specialty hospital in China, and president of the Chinese Red Cross General ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhenhai
Zhenhai is a district and former county of the sub-provincial city of Ningbo in Zhejiang Province in eastern China. It has a population of 200,000. History The town of Zhenhai grew up at the foot of Zhaobao Hill on a tongue of land at the mouth of the Yong River about north-east of central Ningbo. Under the Qing, the city walls covered a circuit of and rose to . The British captured Zhenhai on 10 October 1841 during the First Opium War, dismantling its former citadel. The Zhenhai Coastal Battery was the site of the 1885 Battle of Zhenhai during the Sino-French War. In the later 19th century, Zhenhai was protected from the sea by a dike about long, made of large blocks of hewn granite. Zhenhai has suffered severe long-term air pollution mainly emanating from the Ningbo Petro-Chemical Economic and Technical Development Zone built on its eastern coast. The zone is home to nearly 200 chemical plants including Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Corporation (ZRCC), a subsidiary o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |