Bou Shorgan ( mn, ᠰᠢᠭᠤᠷᠭᠠᠨ, шуурган, zh, 旭日干, 24 August 1940 – 24 December 2015) was a Chinese reproductive biologist.

Biography

Bou Shorgan was born in

Horqin Right Front Banner Horqin Right Front Banner ( Mongolian: ; ) is a banner in the east of Inner Mongolia, China, bordering Jilin province to the southeast. It is under the administration of Hinggan League. The local Mongolian dialect is Khorchin Mongolian The K ...

Hinggan League The Hinggan League (; mn, tr. ''Hinggan Aimag'', Mongol Cyrillic: Хянган аймаг) is a prefecture-level subdivision of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It borders Hulun Buir to the north, ...

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...

in 1940. In 1984, when studying for his doctoral degree in Japan, Shorgan successfully performed in vitro fertilization of sheep and goat, the first in the world. He subsequently returned to China and created the Center for Experimental Zoology in the

Inner Mongolia University Inner Mongolia University is a university in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, under the authority of the Inner Mongolia regional government. It is a member of the Chinese state Double First Class University Plan and former Project 211, and identified as ...

. He became the President of Inner Mongolia University in 1993, making the university enter China's

211 project Project 211 () was an abolished project of developing comprehensive universities and colleges initiated in 1995 by the Ministry of Education of China, with the intent of raising the research standards of comprehensive universities and cultivat ...

, and a member of the

Chinese Academy of Engineering The Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE, ) is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for engineering. It was established in 1994 and is an institution of the State Council of China. The CAE and the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

in 1995. He became vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2010. He attended the 10th and 11th

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC, zh, 中国人民政治协商会议), also known as the People's PCC (, ) or simply the PCC (), is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China and a central part of ...

s. Shorgan established a set of procedures for mass production of sheep and goat embryo with

in vitro fertilization In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process of fertilisation where an egg is combined with sperm in vitro ("in glass"). The process involves monitoring and stimulating an individual's ovulatory process, removing an ovum or ova (egg or eggs) ...

, for which he became known as "father of test tube sheep of China", and observed and recorded the full process of sheep fertilization. He authored ''Fauna of Inner Mongolia''.

Awards

*National Science and Technology Progress Award, Second Class. (2001) * HLHL Science and Technology Progress Award. (1996)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shorgan, Bou 1940 births 2015 deaths Biologists from Inner Mongolia Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering People's Republic of China politicians from Inner Mongolia People from Hinggan League Educators from Inner Mongolia