Chen Jing

Chen Jing, a professor at Yunnan University [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]

Chen Jing, male, born in 1935, is from Dali in Southwest China's Yunnan province. He graduated from the Department of Chemistry (currently the School of Chemical Science and Technology) of Yunnan University (YNU) in 1958.

He worked at Kunming Institute of Precious Metals from 1958 to 2005 and has since worked at YNU. He is currently an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a professor at YNU and an adjunct professor at Central South University, Northeastern University, Kunming University of Science and Technology and Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, among other universities.

He is also a senior executive director of the Nonferrous Metals Society of China and an honorary chairman of the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of Yunnan Province.

For a long time, he has been engaged in the physical and chemical research of platinum-group metal metallurgy and the development of new technologies. Chen's research and projects have achieved important results.

Since the early 1960s, the palladium and rhodium purification methods improved by Chen have been widely used. Due to this innovation, he won the outstanding achievement award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

In terms of basic research, he studied physical and chemical problems in the metallurgical reaction process from the atomic level and summarized many metallurgical reaction laws. He also put forward new ideas on the enrichment principle of precious metals, the relationship between complex stability and atomic structure, redox reaction and more, forming a new systematic theory of precious metal metallurgy.

Chen has published more than 180 academic papers at home and abroad and published three monographs.

He has won the first and second prizes of the national science and technology progress award and more than 10 other awards at the provincial and ministerial levels. In 1997, he was selected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

In 2002, he established a rare and precious metal metallurgical chemistry team. Since then, the team has undertaken more than 20 major subjects (at the national, provincial and municipal levels) with research funds exceeding 70 million yuan ($10.79 million). Chen's team has trained more than 10 doctoral students and more than 40 postgraduate students in recent years.