Yang Shuzi (5 September 1933 – 4 November 2022) was a Chinese engineer. He was born in an intellectual family in

Hukou ''Hukou'' () is a system of household registration used in mainland China. The system itself is more properly called "''huji''" (), and has origins in ancient China; ''hukou'' is the registration of an individual in the system (''kou'' lit ...

Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north int ...

. After he earned his bachelor's degree at Huazhong Institute of Technology in 1956, he became a faculty member there. His research mainly focused on machinery diagnostics. In 1991 he was elected a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, from 1993 to 1997 he was the president of

Huazhong University of Science and Technology The Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST; ) is a public research university located in Guanshan Subdistrict, Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei province, China. As a national key university directly affiliated to the Ministry of E ...

. Yang died on 4 November 2022, at the age of 89.

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1933 births 2022 deaths Educators from Jiangxi Engineers from Jiangxi Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences People from Jiujiang Presidents of Huazhong University of Science and Technology Huazhong University of Science and Technology alumni Wuhan University alumni {{China-engineer-stub