Yesterday, Glorious Years

Academician Style

Guo Moruo, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Guo Moruo (1892-1978) studied in the 8th class (Xin Jia Class) of Chengdu Fu Middle School (the predecessor of Shishi High School) in the spring of 1912 and graduated in 1913. He was another brilliant banner on China's cultural front after Lu Xun. He was a famous poet, playwright, historian, and paleographer in China. He served as the Chairman of the 1st to 4th Chinese Federation of Literary and Art Circles, a member of the 9th, 10th, and 11th Central Committees of the Communist Party of China, Vice Premier of the State Council, Vice Chairman of the 1st and 5th National People's Congress Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In March 1957 and 1958, he successively inscribed couplets and plaques for his alma mater.

Horizontal Couplet: Seeking Truth and Avoiding Empty Talk

Upper Couplet: Love the motherland and the people, study for building socialism

Lower Couplet: Seek truth and skills, wish to enhance the glory of Wen Weng's Shishi

Li Yinyuan, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Li Yinyuan was a student in the 8th class of the high school general science department of Shishi High School. In 1980, he was elected as a member of the Academic Department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (later changed to academician). He was a famous physicist in China, with outstanding achievements in the research of solid-state physics theory. He served as a member of the Mathematics and Physics Department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, director of the Physics Institute, deputy director, doctoral supervisor, standing director of the Chinese Physical Society, deputy secretary-general, and deputy editor-in-chief of Chinese Physics News.

He inscribed a message for the students of his alma mater: Balance work and rest, study both arts and sciences, be calm and leisurely, exercise regularly

Sha Guohe, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Sha Guohe graduated from the 35th class of Shishi High School. He is currently an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a physical chemist. He serves as a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has been engaged in scientific research for 40 years and has made creative achievements and contributions. He has won seven scientific and technological awards, including the First Prize of Natural Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He wrote a message for the anniversary of his alma mater Shishi High School to encourage students: Seek truth, despise fame and fortune, love science, enjoy creation, strengthen will, exercise body, serve the people, never tire

Zhong Shan, Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

Zhong Shan studied at Shishi High School from 1945 to 1948 and graduated from Chongqing University. He is currently a researcher at the Second Research Institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and a corresponding academician of the International Academy of Astronautics, and a standing director of the Chinese Society of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. In 1988, he was awarded the title of National Excellent Scientific and Technological Worker and the National "May Day" Labor Medal. He served as the chief designer of the "Missile Weapon System", which won the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress of the Aerospace Department in 1991. He served as the deputy chief designer of a certain destroyer and won the Special Prize of National Science and Technology Progress in 1999. Main works: Editor-in-chief of System Engineering Quality and Reliability Work Album, Several Provisions on Reliability Engineering for System Equipment Development, etc.

Chen Maozhang, Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

Chen Maozhang was a student in the 37th class of Shishi High School and graduated from Beihang University. In April 1979, he was sent to Imperial College London as a visiting scholar. In 1983, he was approved by the State Council as a doctoral supervisor, and in 1986, he became a professor. He is currently a member of the Aerospace Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. In 1993, the scientific research project he led, Low-speed Large-size Compressor Experimental Bench and Dynamic Measurement Technology, won the First Prize of National Science and Technology Progress. In 1996, his monograph Theoretical Basis of Viscous Fluid Dynamics won the First Prize of Excellent Teaching Materials from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China. He has been included in China's 20th Century Dictionary of Science and Technology Celebrities, Dictionary of Science and Technology Celebrities, and Dictionary of the American Academy of Famous People. He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2000.

Ma Zhiming, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ma Zhiming graduated from Chengdu No. 4 Middle School (formerly Shishi High School) in 1966 and is currently an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has made many important achievements in probability theory and stochastic analysis. He has won many important scientific awards, including the German Research Award, the First Prize of Natural Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Second Prize of National Natural Science, and the Chern Shiing-Shen Mathematics Award. He served as the Vice Chairman of the 7th Council of the Chinese Mathematical Society, a standing member of the 9th Mathematics Department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a member of the 9th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Weng Yuqing, Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

Weng Yuqing graduated from Chengdu No. 4 Middle School (formerly Shishi High School) in 1957, graduated from Tsinghua University in 1963, and obtained a doctorate in steel materials and a PhD in philosophy from the United States. He served as the President of the National Iron and Steel Research Institute, Vice Minister of Metallurgical Industry, and Chairman of China Iron and Steel Industry and Trade Group Corporation. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Chinese Society for Metals, the Chief Scientist of the National "973" Program, and the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He is the person in charge of more than 10 national key scientific and technological projects, has won 8 national invention awards and provincial and ministerial scientific and technological progress awards, and was one of the "Scientific Chinese (2008)" of the Year. He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in December 2009.