Bad news!
January 28 at 3 a.m.,
Kunming University of Science and Technology issued a statement saying,
Outstanding Member of the Communist Party of China, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering,
Famous mining and metallurgists in the mainland,
Mr. Dai Yongnian, Professor of Kunming University of Science and Technology,
Due to the ineffectiveness of medical treatment,
At 18:16 on January 27, 2022
He died in Kunming at the age of 92.

It is understood that Mr. Dai Yongnian was seriously injured for the liberation of Yunnan and died nine times in his life. After liberation, he devoted himself to the research of non-ferrous metals, and the relevant research results were at the world's leading level, and he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in December 1999.
In March 2021, an interview with Yunnan.com recorded the glory years of Academician Dai Yongnian and a number of original achievements.
In more than 60 years of teaching and research of non-ferrous metal vacuum metallurgy, Dai Yongnian has played a leading and basic role in the creation and development of non-ferrous metal vacuum metallurgy in mainland China.
The research group led by Academician Dai Yongnian has successfully researched "internal heat multi-stage continuous distillation vacuum furnace" and "horizontal vacuum furnace" and "new vacuum smelting process of lithium" have been applied by more than 40 enterprises at home and abroad (the United States, Britain, Spain, etc.), and have created hundreds of millions of output values.
The "Vacuum Metallurgy Laboratory" founded by him was rated as the "Vacuum Metallurgy National Engineering Laboratory" by the National Development and Reform Commission in 2005, becoming the first national engineering laboratory to rely on the construction of higher education institutions.
In 1977, he presided over the compilation of the first "Tin Metallurgy" textbook in the mainland, which was included in the national excellent scientific and technological bibliography.
With his lead in editing "Vacuum Metallurgy", he was the first systematic monograph on vacuum metallurgy in mainland China, and won the second prize of the National Excellent Science and Technology Book Selected by the General Administration of Press and Publication in 1990.
Dai Yongnian has won 2 second prizes of national technological invention, 2 second prizes of national scientific and technological progress, 1 fourth prize of national invention, outstanding contribution award of science and technology in Yunnan Province, etc., won the national May Day Labor Medal, the title of advanced scientific and technological worker of national colleges and universities, etc., and made outstanding contributions to the development of higher education and mining and metallurgical science and technology in the mainland.
At the age of 90, he still insisted on going to school
He has donated more than 600,000 yuan
According to Kunming University of Science and Technology, at the age of 90, Academician Dai Yongnian still insisted on going to the school to guide the study and research of graduate students, and for some new research directions and topics, he would personally consult a large number of references and discuss with relevant teachers and students.
In recent years, Academician Dai Yongnian has donated a total of more than 600,000 yuan in personal savings twice, set up an innovation fund for Kunming University of Science and Technology, and created a special fund for a "double-first-class" university to help the construction and development of school education.
Academician Dai Yongnian once sent a message to the youth: "I hope that the younger generation will develop higher than us, make the country build more rapidly, become stronger, and stand among the nations in the world." ”
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Source: China Youth Daily