Zheng Shouren | |||||||
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郑守仁 | |||||||
Born | Yingshang County, Anhui, China | January 30, 1940||||||
Died | July 24, 2020 | (aged 80)||||||
Alma mater | Hohai University | ||||||
Scientific career | |||||||
Fields | Hydraulic and Hydro-Power Engineering | ||||||
Institutions | Yangtze River Water Conservancy Commission | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 鄭守仁 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 郑守仁 | ||||||
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Zheng Shouren (Chinese: 郑守仁; pinyin: Zhèng Shǒurén; January 30, 1940 – July 24, 2020) was a Chinese engineer and chief designer of the Three Gorges Dam.[1] He had been engaged in the planning and design of the Yangtze River Basin and major water conservancy projects for a long time and had published more than 60 papers and 4 books. He was a member of the Communist Party of China.
Zheng was born in Yingshang County, Anhui, on January 30, 1940. After graduating from East China University of Water Resources (now Hohai University) in September 1963, he was assigned to the Yangtze River Basin Planning Office, where he was promoted to deputy chief engineer in 1991 and to chief engineer in 1994. He was chief designer of the Three Gorges Dam. He died of illness in Wuhan, Hubei, on July 24, 2020.[2]
He successively participated in the designs of Lushui Hydropower Project of Hubei, Wujiangdu Hydropower Project of Guizhou and Yangtze River Gezhouba Hydropower project, and took responsibilities for diversion design of the Wujiangdu as well as river closure design and cofferdam design of the Gezhouba Dam. He also joined and took charge of the designs of Qingjiang Geheyan Hydropower Project and Three Gorges Dam.