Zhang Ziyi (zootechnician)

This article is about a Chinese zootechnician. For the Chinese actress, see Zhang Ziyi. For the Polish actress, see Zhang Zhiyi.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhang.

Zhang Ziyi
张子仪
Born	(1925-03-04)4 March 1925 Linyi County, Shanxi, China
Died	23 March 2022(2022-03-23) (aged 97) Beijing, China
Alma mater	Hokkaido University Kyoto University
Scientific career
Fields	Zootechnics
Institutions	Institute of Animal Husbandry, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	张子仪
Traditional Chinese	張子儀
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhāng Zǐyí

Zhang Ziyi (4 March 1925 – 23 March 2022) was a Chinese zootechnician and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was a member of the 7th and 8th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Biography

Zhang was born in Linyi County, Shanxi, on 4 March 1925. His father was a Jinshi during the late Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) in Imperial China. After graduating from Hokkaido University in the Empire of Japan in 1945, he attended Kyoto University where he obtained his bachelor's degree in agronomy in Allied-occupied Japan in 1948 and doctor's degree in animal nutrition in 1952.

Zhang returned to China in October 1952 and that same year became a group leader in the North China Institute of Agricultural Sciences. In January 1980, he took office as director of the Institute of Animal Husbandry, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, a position he held until January 2010.

On 23 March 2022, he died of an illness in Beijing, at the age of 97.

Honours and awards

• 1985 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) for the paper of Tables of Feed Composition and Nutritive Value in China
• 1996 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) for the Study on Nutritional Parameters and New Technology of Feed Formula for Pigs and Chickens
• 1997 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)