Lu, Yingzhong

Professor YINGZHONG LU was a pioneer nuclear engineer and educator in the People’s Republic of China. He created the first Chinese nuclear engineering faculty at Tsinghua University and led the construction of the first all-Chinese research reactor in the late 1950s. He founded the Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology in 1960 and was its director for 25 years. In 1980 Professor Lu introduced energy systems and policy research in China and participated in the study and drafting of many important energy policies. In 1985 he established and became the director of the Institute for Techno-Economics and Energy Systems Analysis, which promoted extensive international exchange and cooperation in energy studies between China and more than twenty countries.