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Wu Yiqiang

Chinese material engineer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ109649056 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wu Yiqiang (born July 1967) is a Chinese material engineer who is a professor and former vice president of Central South University of Forestry and Technology, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography

Wu was born in Gushi County, Henan, in July 1967. After graduating from Central South University of Forestry and Technology in 1991, he stayed at the university, where he moved up the ranks to become vice-president in May 2016. He earned his doctor's degree from Ehime University in 2005.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Wu Yiqiang” as chinese material engineer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 1991, 2016, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1967-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Yiqiang, Chinese and material can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as chinese material engineer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q109649056. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1967, 1991, 2016 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wu Yiqiang” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.