Zhu Yongxin
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Biography
Zhu Yongxin was born August 1958 in Dafeng County, Jiangsu. His father is a local teacher in Dafeng.Zhu entered Soochow University in 1977, majoring in educational psychology, as the first enrollment through Gaokao after the Cultural Revolution. After two years, he was sent to study at Shanghai Normal University to meet the shortfall of teachers at Soochow University.
Since returning to Suzhou in 1982, Zhu had been teaching and doing research at Soochow University and became an associate Professor in 1987. He has also taken the position dean of Academic Affairs Office at Soochow University by 1997. After that, Zhu entered the government, becoming vice mayor of Suzhou and is responsible for education, science, culture, and health field. Until 2007, he was selected to the vice chairman of China Association for Promoting Democracy.
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Academic
Professor Zhu Yongxin researches on education of China, over the past 20 years, he has published more than 400 papers on education and over 30 works domestically and abroad. He is also the editor of "Contemporary Japanese Education Series", "Education in the new century library", "New education" and others. Furthermore, he has undertaken UNESCO commissioned research projects, National Natural Science Fund, the National Social Science fund. As a professor and PhD advisor in Suzhou University, Zhu is the initiator of the program New Education Experiment. He proposed the ideal of education in 2002, in that program, he draws a blueprint for a quality education system in contemporary China. By 2013, there are more than 1500 experimental school participated in New Education Experiment among 25 provinces, and over 1500 thousand teachers and students have taken part in this program. Professor Zhu has published more than 400 articles on education both at home and abroad, and published over 30 books as well.
Awards and recognition
Zhu was appointed one of “60 Outstanding People in Chinese Education in the Past 60 Years (2009)”, “Man of the Day in Chinese Education (2008)” on the 30th anniversary of reform and opening-up, “Top Ten Men in the News since China’s Reform (2007)”, and “China’s Ten Distinguished Educators (2006).