Hou Fusheng

Hou Fusheng was a Chinese petroleum and chemical engineer who served as deputy chief engineer of Sinopec and was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995. Born on 28 November 1923 in Wuxi, Jiangsu, he studied in Shanghai and, after the Japanese occupation of the Shanghai International Settlement, travelled to Fujian, where he was admitted in 1943 to National Jinan University, relocated there because of the war. He graduated in chemistry in 1947 and spent most of his career in the petroleum industry, taking part in many major projects and serving as chief engineer of the Northeast No. 10 Petroleum Works and of the Production Department of the Ministry of Petroleum before his Sinopec post. He published more than eighty research articles and four books. He died on 31 October 2018 at the age of 94.