Career
In 1928, Bochuan went to Nanjing University for his bachelor"s degree of chemistry. In 1934, he went to Germany and later got his doctoral degree from the Dresden University of Technology, majoring in Chemical Engineering. Then he came back to China in 1938, exploring a way to improve the Chinese technical and educational development.
Introduced by Zhou Enlai, he went to Yan"an,Later the same year, he participated in the foundation of the Yan’an Institute of Natural Science, directly reported to Mao Zedong on this project, and held the position of the academic dean of the Institute.
From 1938 to 1948, he served as a variety of technical development positions assigned by the central government, e.g.,the director of the experimental institute of the Shanxi-Chaha’er-Hebei Military Area. Then he was sent to the city of Dalian to initiate the first tertiary technical school under the Communist Party.
He then served as the first president of Dalian University of Technology from September, 1948 to September, 1981, though interrupted by the Cultural Revolution in between. In 1980, based on the cooperation agreement between the United States and Chinese governments, together with Doctor.Jordan J. Baruch, and many others, founded the first Master of Business Administration program in China in the Dalian University of Technology.
He took up the position of honorary president of the Dalian University of technology in 1981 and obtained the award for the "Highlighted Seniors" from the State Educational Commission the same year.
There are only two people who got this award, he and Doctor Jordan J. Baruch.
