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1989 11 12, a famous bridge expert Mao Yisheng illness, died in Beijing, aged 94 years old. the
Mao Yisheng Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, the early years of study in the United States, and received his Ph.D. degree. Him after returning home in 1920, a former of Hohai Engineering University, Tianjin Beiyang University President. In 1933-1937, he presided over the design and construction of China's first railway bridge - the Qiantang River Bridge. War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, he served as the Tangshan Dean, general manager of China Bridge Company, Academia Sinica president, president of the Chinese Institute of Engineers. He attended the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in 1949, after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, served as president of China Jiaotong University, Ministry of Railways Railway Sciences Research Institute, Vice-Chairman of China Association for Science and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences academician, China Civil Engineering Construction Engineering Society, a senior member of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering Association. In 1982, he was the U.S. National Academy of Sciences awarded the title of foreign academicians. 1952 Jiu San Society, long served as the vice chairman of the Central Committee of Jiu San Society, is the one to sixth member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the second to sixth member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Honorable joined the Communist Party of China in October 1987.
30 years, he presided over the design and construction of the first designed by the Chinese themselves and presided over the construction of a modern highway and rail bridge - the Qiantang River Bridge. In the 1950s, in the process of construction of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, he served as chairman of the Technical Advisory Committee of Chinese and foreign experts, the contribution for the construction of this new China's first modern Bridge technology, experience and wisdom. 1959, the construction of the capital's top ten construction, he served as the Great Hall of the structure of the review team leader, Premier Zhou Enlai to specify the design and validated by his signature, undertake to guarantee the security responsibility of the Great Hall of the People. In 1978, The the Mao Yisheng presided Xiuzhuan the "Old Bridge technology History, technically made a summary of our Old Bridge construction. He presided over the Railway Technical Research Institute and Academy of Railway Sciences for 30 years. A lot of scientific research, production and construction of China's railway transportation and trained a large number of scientific and technological personnel.