Pan Jiazheng (; November 12, 1927 – July 13, 2012) was a Chinese

hydraulic engineer Hydraulic engineering as a sub-discipline of civil engineering is concerned with the flow and conveyance of fluids, principally water and sewage. One feature of these systems is the extensive use of gravity as the motive force to cause the mov ...

and poet.

Biography

Pan was born in

Shaoxing Shaoxing (; ) is a prefecture-level city on the southern shore of Hangzhou Bay in northeastern Zhejiang province, China. It was formerly known as Kuaiji and Shanyin and abbreviated in Chinese as (''Yuè'') from the area's former inhabitant ...

Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , Chinese postal romanization, also romanized as Chekiang) is an East China, eastern, coastal Provinces of China, province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable citie ...

, China, and lost his father at a young age. He was accepted by the Department of Civil Engineering of Zhejiang University, but almost dropped out because of poverty. His 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 ...

, saw promise in him and paid for his tuition out of his own pocket until his graduation in 1950. He was an academician and the Vice-president 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 ...

(CAE), and an academician of

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 ...

. He served as the former Chief Director of the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering,中国岩石力学与工程学会:学会简介
and the technical chief for the

Three Gorges Dam The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges. The Three Gorges Dam has been the world' ...

References

External links

ChinaVitae - Pan Jiazheng

Chinese Academy of Engineering - Pan Jiazheng
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pan, Jiazheng 1927 births 2012 deaths 20th-century Chinese poets Chinese science fiction writers Engineers from Zhejiang Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences People's Republic of China poets People's Republic of China science writers Poets from Zhejiang Writers from Shaoxing Zhejiang University alumni