Huang Xiling

Huang Xiling
Huang Xiling
黄熙龄
Born	April 24, 1927; Zhongxiang County, Hubei, China
Died	June 16, 2021 (aged 94); Beijing, China
Alma mater	National Central University; Moscow State University of Civil Engineering
	Scientific career
Fields	Geotechnical engineering
Institutions	China Academy of Building Research
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	黄熙龄
Traditional Chinese	黃熙齡
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Huáng Xīlíng

Huang Xiling (Chinese: 黄熙龄; 24 April 1927 – 16 June 2021) was a Chinese geotechnical specialist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).[1]

Biography

Huang was born in Zhongxiang County, Hubei, on 24 April 1927. In 1933 he attended the Methodist Primary School (循道会小学), a church school in Hankou. After the Imperial Japanese Army occupied Wuhan, he fled to Wanxian County, southwest China's Sichuan province, with his elder female cousin Huang Pengling (黄彭玲), and completed his primary school education at Huancheng Road Primary School (环城路小学). He secondary studied at Jiangjin National 9th High School (江津国立第九中学) in the neighboring Chongqing city. In 1945, he was admitted to National Central University, majoring in the Department of Civil Engineering. After graduating in 1949, he was dispatched to the Nanjing Military Control Commission. After a short year in the Infrastructure Division of Northeast Planning Commission, he was transferred to Northeast Construction Bureau as secretary of the director. In January 1955, he was sent to study at the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering on government scholarships. He returned to China in January 1959 and joined the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Construction (now Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development). In January 2005, he moved to the China Academy of Building Research, where he successively served as its vice president and president. He died of illness in Beijing, on 16 June 2021, aged 94.[2]

Works

Huang Xiling, ed. (2004). 中国大百科全书土木工程 [Encyclopedia of China: Civil Engineering] (in Chinese). Vol. 74. Beijing: Encyclopedia of China Publishing House.

Honours and awards

1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

References

著名地基基础工程专家黄熙龄逝世，共和国今年已痛别16位院士 [Huang Xiling, a famous expert in foundation engineering, is dead, and China has bid farewell to 16 academicians this year]. sina (in Chinese). 16 June 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
Li Yuan (李苑) (16 June 2021). 岩土工程专家黄熙龄院士逝世 [Huang Xiling, geotechnical specialist and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is dead]. qq.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 16 June 2021.

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[1] 著名地基基础工程专家黄熙龄逝世，共和国今年已痛别16位院士 [Huang Xiling, a famous expert in foundation engineering, is dead, and China has bid farewell to 16 academicians this year]. sina (in Chinese). 16 June 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2021.

[2] Li Yuan (李苑) (16 June 2021). 岩土工程专家黄熙龄院士逝世 [Huang Xiling, geotechnical specialist and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is dead]. qq.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 16 June 2021.