Chen Junwu


Chen Junwu is a Chinese engineer and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography

Chen was born in Beijing, on March 17, 1927, while his ancestral home in Fuzhou, Fujian. His father was a politician in late Qing dynasty and early Republic of China. He is the younger brother of Chen Shunyao, the wife of Song Ping. He attended Chongde Middle School. In 1944 he was accepted to Peking University, majoring in the Department of Applied Chemistry, where he graduated in 1948.
In December 1949 he became a technician at a petroleum plant in Fushun, northeast China's Liaoning province. In 1956 he joined the Fushun Design Institute of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry. Three years later, he was appointed an architect at Datong Coal Refinery Plant. Then he joined Luoyang Engineering Company. In 1982 he joined Sinopec.
In 2018, Chen Junwu's biography was published, written by Zhang Wenxin, a well known Luoyang-based author.

Personal life

Chen married Wu Ningfang and the couple has two daughters, Chen Ling and Chen Xin.

Honours and awards