Zou Jing (engineer)

Zou Jing (Chinese: 邹竞; 9 February 1936 – 9 June 2022) was a Chinese engineer specializing in photosensitive materials, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. She was a delegate to the 8th National People's Congress and a member of the 9th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

For the military officer, see Zou Jing (Eastern Han).
In this Chinese name, the family name is Zou.
Zou Jing
邹竞
Born(1936-02-09)9 February 1936
Shanghai, China
Died9 June 2022(2022-06-09) (aged 86)
Tianjin, China
Alma materSaint Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television
Scientific career
FieldsPhotosensitive materials
InstitutionsTianjin University
China Lucky Film
Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese邹竞
Traditional Chinese鄒競

Biography

Zou was born in Shanghai, on 9 February 1936, while her ancestral home is in Pinghu, Zhejiang. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, her family moved to Suzhou to escape from the war. She secondary studied at Suzhou High School.[1] After studying a year of Russian language at Beijing Russian College in 1955, she was sent to study at the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television on government scholarships.[2]

Zou returned to China in 1960 and that same year became an engineer at Baoding Film Factory (now China Lucky Film). She joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in August 1987. In May 2010, she joined the faculty of School of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University. On 15 March 2011, she was hired as director of the Printing Electronics Research Center of Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication.

On 9 June 2022, she died from an illness in Tianjin, at the age of 86.[3]

Contributions

In the 1960s, Zou successfully developed three kinds of special infrared films urgently needed by national defense and military industry, which filled the gap in China; Since the 1970s, she had presided over the development of three generations of lucky color films, which had achieved a great breakthrough in domestic color films from scratch and achieved remarkable economic and social benefits; Since the beginning of the 21st century, she had successively developed general-purpose medical green X-ray film, medical infrared laser image films, silver salt transparent conductive film, solar cell back film, and other functional film materials.[4]

Honours and awards

References
  1. 彩色讣告照片刷屏！背后故事与你我有关. sina (in Chinese). 10 June 2022. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  2. Lu Wei (陆威) (9 June 2022). 感光材料专家邹竞院士逝世 曾主持研发国产彩色胶卷. xhby.net (in Chinese). Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  3. Zhong Yuhao (钟煜豪) (9 June 2022). 三天内两星陨落，共和国今年已痛失16位两院院士. stdaily.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  4. Sun Lingling (孙玲玲) (9 June 2022). 著名感光材料专家邹竞院士逝世. Sohu (in Chinese). Retrieved 9 June 2022.
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