Jiang Yiyuan

Not to be confused with Jiang Yiyan.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Jiang.

Jiang Yiyuan (Chinese: 蒋亦元; November 17, 1928 – February 24, 2020) was a Chinese agricultural engineer and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).^[1] He was a member of the Chinese Society for Agricultural Machinery and Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering.

Jiang Yiyuan
Born	(1928-11-27)November 27, 1928 Changzhou, Jiangsu, China
Died	February 24, 2020(2020-02-24) (aged 91) Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
Alma mater	University of Nanking St. Petersburg National Agricultural University [ru]
Scientific career
Fields	Agricultural engineering
Institutions	Northeast Agricultural University
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	蔣亦元
Simplified Chinese	蒋亦元
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiǎng Yìyuán

Biography

Jiang was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu, on November 17, 1928. His father was a merchant. He attended Zhengheng High School (正衡中学). In 1946 he enrolled at the University of Nanking, where he graduated in 1950. After university, he was hired as a teacher at Northeast Agricultural University, where he successively served as lecturer, associate professor, and professor. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1956. In 1957, he was sent to the Soviet Union to study at St. Petersburg National Agricultural University [ru], studying mechanical theory under M. H. Ledoshniev. In 1982, he became a senior visiting scholar at Michigan State University. He died of illness in Harbin, Heilongjiang, on February 24, 2020, aged 91.^[2]

Honours and awards

• 1997 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)^[3]