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Duan Zhengcheng, industrial engineer
16Feb By Web TeamNo Comments
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Duan Zhengcheng, industrial engineer

Duan Zhengcheng ‑ a Chinese industrial engineer and inventor – died from coronavirus on 15 February 2020.   He specialized in machinery manufacturing and automation, was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and served as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology.   Duan was born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, on 15 June 1934. After graduating from high school in 1953, he studied, then taught, at what is now Huazhong University of Science and Technology. On 15 February 2020, he died of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei, aged 85.   In 1996, he invented the OUR-QGD stereotactic gamma-ray system, which won him a State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) i...
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Liu Shouxiang, painter
15Feb By Web TeamNo Comments
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Liu Shouxiang, painter

Liu Shouxiang –a Chinese watercolor painter and professor at the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts – died from Covid-19 on 13 February 2020.   His work won many awards and was collected by many art museums. He was also a member of the China Democratic League.   Liu was born in Wuhan. In 1981, he graduated from the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts in the Department of Fine Arts, majored in teaching. He stayed in school and served as the director of the Department of Fine Arts Education. In 1987, he founded the Department of Watercolor Painting in the Hubei Institute of Technology Teachers' Department. In 2009, he established a watercolor painting department and served as the head of the department. He was the first person to set up a watercolor painting de...
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Liu Fan, nurse
15Feb By Web TeamNo Comments
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Liu Fan, nurse

Liu Fan ‑ a deputy chief nurse of Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei, China – passed away on 14 February 2020 due to coronavirus. She was the first nurse to die from SARS-CoV-2 infection, at the age of 59. Her death caused strong internet reactions across China. Both her parents and her brother died of the coronavirus before her, which led many to characterise their deaths as "family extinction" (灭门). Many saw her work conditions during the outbreak as unacceptable. Initially, the news of her death was declared a "fabricated rumour". Separately, the death of her brother, Chang Kai, a renowned director, had received strong internet reactions and wide commemorations. The initial hospital responses to her death drew heavy criticism, forcing both the hospita...
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Dr Lin Zhengbin, physician
11Feb By Web TeamNo Comments
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Dr Lin Zhengbin, physician

Dr Lin Zhengbin –a Chinese physician and organ transplant expert at Wuhan Tongji Hospital – died from Covid-19 on 10 February 2020.   Lin graduated from Tongji Medical College in 1987, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in medicine. After graduation, he started his career at Wuhan Tongji Hospital , engaged in organ transplants for more than 30 years. He was chief physician of the Institute of Organ Transplantation of Tongji Hospital. He retired in July 2017, but was rehired by Wuhan Tongji Hospital.   During the COVID-19 pandemic in China, Lin was infected with the coronavirus. He died on 10 February 2020 due to complications caused by the disease.   Falun Gong supporters accused him of harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitio...
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Dr Xu Hui
9Feb By Web TeamNo Comments
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Dr Xu Hui

Dr. Xu Hui, 51, vice-head of the Nanjing Hospital of Chinese medicine, died due to Covid-19 in China on February 7, 2020. Dr. Hui, who co-lead a team dedicated to treating Covid-19 patients, was hauled a hero for working nonstop for 18 days while on the frontlines fighting the virus that ultimately took her life. The 51-year-old Xu Hui was the vice-head of the Nanjing Hospital of Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, and was co-leading a team to treat patients infected with coronavirus (Covid-19). She passed away “unexpectedly” in the early morning of Feb. 7 due to “a sudden illness” after working for 18 days straight, Xinhua reported. According to a statement released on Monday, Feb. 12, Lou said, “Xu led by example, and dedicated herself completely...
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Dr Li Wenliang, Physician
8Feb By Web TeamNo Comments
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Dr Li Wenliang, Physician

Dr. Li Wenliang, 34, a Chinese physician recognized as the whistleblower in Wuhan, died on February 7, 2020, shortly after an interview from his hospital bed. The death of a Chinese doctor who tried to warn about the coronavirus outbreak had sparked widespread public anger and grief in China. Li Wenliang died after contracting the virus while treating patients in Wuhan. Last December he had sent a message to fellow medics warning of a virus he thought looked like Sars – another deadly coronavirus. But he was told by police to “stop making false comments” and was investigated for “spreading rumours”. “I don’t think he was rumour-mongering. Hasn’t this turned into reality now?” his father, Li Shuying, told the BBC. “My son was wonderful.” According to Chinese site Pear Video, Dr Li...
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Hong Ling, geneticist
8Feb By Web TeamNo Comments
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Hong Ling, geneticist

Hong Ling ‑ a Chinese geneticist, professor and doctoral advisor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology – died on 7 February 2020  due to Covid-19 infection at Wuhan Union Hospital. Hong was educated at Wuhan University, majoring in biology, where he graduated in July 1987 and obtained a bachelor's degree. In December 1994, he graduated from the University of Arizona with a doctor's degree in biochemistry. After graduation, he started his career as a biochemist at Department of Molecular & Cell Biology (MCB), of University of California, Berkeley. Since March 2007, he served as professor of molecular biology at the School of Life Science and Technology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He was studying major and rare human ...
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Qiu Jun, bodybuilder
7Feb By Web TeamNo Comments
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Qiu Jun, bodybuilder

Qiu Jun ‑a Chinese bodybuilder and a bodybuilding champion who claimed numerous prizes in the senior category – died on 6 February 2020 from coronavirus   He won many national competitions and was ranked 2nd in the international bodybuilding tournament called "Olympic World Night" 2019, which took place in China.   In 1964, after graduating from technical secondary school, Qiu, age 16 years old, entered Wuchang Vehicle Factory where he was responsible for railway maintenance. In 1990, he participated in the first bodybuilding competition in Hubei Province on behalf of the factory and got the fifth place in the province. Since then, he become obsessed with bodybuilding. When SARS outbreak in 2003 occurred, Qiu retired from the factory. His wife pa...
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Wen Zengxian, politician
1Feb By Web TeamNo Comments
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Wen Zengxian, politician

Wen Zengxian –a Chinese politician who served as Deputy director-general of the Civil Affairs Department of Hubei Province from 1997 to 2010 – passed away on 31 January 2020 after contracting Covid-19.   Wen was born in Xinye County, Henan. In April 1972, he started to work at Xiangfan Municipal Propaganda Team. In January 1975, he worked as a clerk at Xiangfan Municipal Bureau of Culture. He joined the Communist Party of China in September 1976. Wen entered Wuhan University in February 1977, majoring in Chinese Language and Literature. After earning his bachelor's degree in January 1980, he started to work at Politics Division of the Civil Affairs Department of Hubei Province. Later, he served as the President of Hubei Civil Administration School (Decem...
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