On December 18, Hunan Normal University officially announced the arrival of the new president Liu Zhonghua.
President Liu, 58 years old, a native of Hengyang, Hunan Province, worked at Hunan Agricultural University before joining Hunan Normal University.
President Liu entered Hunan Agricultural University in 1981 as a Xi, completed his master's degree in 1988, and then stayed in the university to work, successively as a teaching assistant, lecturer, associate professor, in 1994 as the vice president of the College of Food Science and Technology, and was hired as a professor in 1999.
In 2009, he went to Tsinghua University to study for a doctorate degree and obtained a doctoral diploma in 2014. In 2019, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. In June 2020, he was appointed as the director of the academic committee of the university. In October 2022, he was elected as a medium alternate.
The elimination rate of academicians of the two academies, everyone knows that it is very high, many people have lost the election for three consecutive terms, and President Liu was able toWithin 5 years after graduating with a doctorate, he was successfully elected as an academician。Across the country, that's very rare.
Liu Xiao is mainly engaged in the research of tea processing theory and technology, tea deep processing and resource utilization, and has innovated the theoretical and technical system of black tea processing and the core technology system of tea deep processing, which has made great contributions to the development of China's tea industry, and is also a big bull in the domestic tea industry. As the first finisher, he has won 2 second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 first prize of the Provincial Natural Science Award, and 3 first prizes of the Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award.
Academicians governing schools has become a popular employment force in colleges and universities. According to incomplete statistics, since 2023, more than a dozen academicians of the "two academies" have served as university presidents, and many of them have no administrative management experience.