Zhang Yongsheng, a professor born in the 1980s at Zhengzhou University, takes over as deputy county magistrate after serving for 3 years. Puyang Municipal Government | website | takes over
On August 28th, the website of the Puyang Municipal Government issued a notice on the appointment and removal of 68 people including Du Xiaoling. Among them, Zhang Yongsheng served as the Executive Director of Puyang Academy of Science and Technology.
Previously, as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhang Yongsheng had been temporarily serving as the Deputy County Magistrate of Nanle County for nearly 3 years. In July 2023, Zhang Yongsheng was announced to be appointed as a department level leader in a municipal unit.
According to public data, Zhang Yongsheng, male, Han nationality, was born in October 1987 in Xiping County, Henan Province. He started working in January 2015 and joined the CPC in January 2010. He is a graduate student and a doctor of engineering.
Zhang Yongsheng graduated from Zhengzhou University with both undergraduate and graduate degrees. After obtaining a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry from the University of Western Ontario in Canada in 2014, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Guelph in Canada. After returning to China in 2016, Zhang Yongsheng returned to his alma mater Zhengzhou University to work, serving as a lecturer, associate professor, and directly appointed professor at the School of Chemical Engineering.
In terms of research field, Zhang Yongsheng mainly engages in the conversion and value-added utilization of biomass resources. Through efficient catalytic conversion, structure function design and other processes and methods, he focuses on furan chemicals and copolyesters, lignin depolymerization and material utilization, nanocomposite environmental energy materials, and carries out basic theoretical and technological development research.
In September 2020, Zhang Yongsheng was appointed as the Deputy County Magistrate of Nanle County Government. According to the website of the Nanle County Government, he is responsible for the work of the biobased materials industry, assisting Li Shanrong, a member of the Standing Committee of the County Committee and Executive Deputy County Mayor, in grasping the work of the industrial agglomeration zone.
The Puyang Science and Technology Research Institute, where Zhang Yongsheng took office, was unveiled and established on February 10, 2022. According to the website of Puyang Academy of Science and Technology, after the establishment of the institute, Puyang became the first provincial-level city in Henan Province to establish a municipal academy of science and technology.