Qiu Dahong (; born 6 April 1930) is a Chinese

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and

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. He served as chief engineer of the Dalian Fishing Port, the New Dalian Port, the

Qinhuangdao Qinhuangdao (; ) is a port city on the coast of China in northern Hebei. It is administratively a prefecture-level city, about east of Beijing, on the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea. Its population during the 2020 national ...

Petroleum Port, and many other projects. He is a professor of the

Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology (DUT) (), colloquially known in Chinese as Dagong (), is a public research university located in Dalian, Liaoning, China, with an additional campus in Panjin, Liaoning. Established in April 1949, it is the ...

and directed the State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering. He was elected an academician of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republi ...

in 1991.

Biography

Qiu was born on 6 April 1930 in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four Direct-administered municipalities of China, direct-administered municipalities of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the ...

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, with his

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, Zhejiang. After graduating from the Department of Civil Engineering of

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (; abbr. THU) is a national public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. The university is a member of the C9 League, Double First Class University Plan, Projec ...

in 1951, he joined the

(DUT), where he worked under Professor

Qian Lingxi Qian Lingxi (; 26 July 1916 – 20 April 2009), also known as Tsien Ling-hi, was a Chinese civil engineer and physicist. An authority on engineering structural mechanics and computational mechanics, he served as President of the Dalian Universit ...

and helped create China's first port and harbour engineering program. In 1958, Qiu was appointed chief engineer for the construction of Dalian Fishing Port at the age of 28. The port, designed to occupy of open water with docks for 300 fishing boats, was unprecedented in China in both scale and difficulty. When completed in 1966, it was Asia's largest fishing port. In 1987, Qiu again served as chief engineer for the port's expansion project, which was completed in 1989. In 1973, Qiu became chief engineer of the New Dalian Port, the first port in China capable of handling

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s with a displacement of 100,000 tons. It was opened in 1976, and won a national gold medal for its design. Qiu later led or participated in the design of the

Petroleum Port, the

Lianyungang Lianyungang () is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Jiangsu province, China. It borders Yancheng to its southeast, Huai'an and Suqian to its south, Xuzhou to its southwest, and the province of Shandong to its north. Its name derives from ...

Container Port, the

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Chiwan Port, the

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Petroleum Port, the Yamen Shipping Channel of the

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, and the

Yangshan Port Yangshan Port (Chinese: , p ''Yángshān Gǎng'', Wu ''Yan-se Kaon''), formally the Yangshan Deep-Water Port (, p ''Yángshān Shēnshuǐ Gǎng'', Wu ''Yan-se Sen-sy Kaon''), is a deep water port for container ships in ...

of Shanghai. Qiu served as Director of the State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering at DUT and was elected an academician of the

in 1991. In 1992, he was elected a Central Committee member of the Jiusan Society.

Publications

Qiu published more than 100 scientific papers and multiple

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and textbooks. In addition to coastal and offshore engineering, he researched wave theory and conducted experiments to calculate the forces that sea waves exert on engineering structures. In 2011, China Ocean Press published ''The Collective Writings of Qiu Dahong'' (邱大洪文集), which includes 93 scientific papers, 15 published articles on port construction projects, and 20 other articles.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Qiu, Dahong 1930 births Living people Chinese civil engineers Coastal engineering Dalian University of Technology faculty Engineers from Shanghai Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Members of the Jiusan Society Offshore engineering Nanyang Model High School alumni Tsinghua University alumni