A brief biography of Tu Changwang
Tu Changwang graduated from Hujiang University in Shanghai in 1929. He studied at the University of London from 1931 to 1933 and received a master's degree. From 1933 to 1934, he studied for a doctorate at the University of Liverpool. In 1934, at the invitation of Mr. Zhu Kezhen, he returned to China as a researcher at the Institute of Meteorology, Academia Sinica, and successively served as a professor at Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, and Central University. After the Central University was renamed in 1949, he served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Nanjing University School Committee. From 1949 to 1962, he served as director of the Meteorological Bureau of the Central Military Commission (later the Central Meteorological Bureau).
Tu Changwang is a representative of the first and second National People's Congress, a member of the first and second National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Standing Committee, Secretary-General and Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee of Jiusan Society, Secretary of the Secretariat of the China Association for Science and Technology, and a member of the National Natural Science Association of China. He is a member of the Standing Committee and Secretary General of the Federation of Societies, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Meteorological Society, Director and Secretary of the World Association of Scientists, Member of the Faculty and Standing Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a foreign member of the Royal Meteorological Society of the United Kingdom.
Tu Changwang is the founder of meteorological undertakings in New China and has made pioneering contributions to the overall planning and planning of meteorological undertakings. He attaches great importance to meteorological business, especially the development of basic observations, and has made important contributions to the construction of my country's meteorological observatory network. He carefully organized meteorological service work, actively developed scientific research and severe weather forecasting services, promoted experimental research on artificial local weather modification, and advocated the development of my country's meteorological satellite undertaking. Under his initiative and leadership, the Meteorological Bureau established a joint weather analysis and forecast center and a joint meteorological data room with relevant universities and scientific research units to vigorously develop weather forecasts, as well as provide services for civil aviation, shipping, fisheries, salt industry, agriculture, forestry, water conservancy, It also provided dangerous weather forecasts for factories, mines and railways, and actively planned meteorological services such as marine, environmental protection, hydrology, and earthquakes. It played an important role in the liberation of China, the war against U.S. aggression and aid to Korea, and large-scale economic construction, and laid the direction for the development of China's meteorological industry.
Tu Changwang has devoted himself to meteorological scientific research for a long time, pioneered long-term weather forecast research in China, and made important contributions to the research and application of Chinese air masses and fronts, Chinese climate, and East Asian circulation. He has extensive knowledge and broad vision, and has made contributions to scientific and applied fields such as agricultural climate, frost prediction, Yangtze River hydrology prediction, climate and human health, China's climate and river hydrology, soil formation and vegetation distribution, China's population and social economy, etc. made a fruitful contribution. He is not only one of the pioneers of weather forecasting and climate prediction research in my country, but also a powerful leader and main promoter.
Tu Changwang has made outstanding contributions to my country’s meteorological education and talent training, and has created a group of experts and leadership backbones for the development of meteorological undertakings. Many students he trained, such as Ye Duzheng, Xie Yibing, Guo Xiaolan, Shi Yafeng, Mao Hanli, Shu Peng, Huang Shisong, etc., have become well-known scholars at home and abroad. At his suggestion, the Central Meteorological Administration founded my country's first higher meteorological college, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, and vigorously supported the meteorological education work of Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Nanjing University. Tu Changwang's life was a life of ups and downs struggling for China's realization of democracy and revitalization of science, and a life of dedication to China's meteorological cause. He worked hard for the development of China's meteorological undertakings, and his noble qualities of infinite loyalty to the motherland and people will always be deeply missed by us.
Main works include "Climate Regions of China", "The Causes and Sources of Low Pressure in my country", "The Relationship between Atmospheric Operations and World Temperature", "Chinese Weather and World Atmospheric Fluctuations and Their Long-term Forecasts for China" "Application of Summer Droughts and Floods", "China's Air Masses", "About the Issues of Climate Warming in the Twenty-first Century", etc.