Dr. Academician Shoubo Xu

Academician Shoubo Xu Academician Shoubo Xu was born in 1931 at Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, China. He is the founding father of the discipline called Technological Economics (TE), Energy Technological Economics (ETE)/Comprehensive Energy Engineering (CEE), and the theory of Material Flow Technological Economics (MFTE)/Comprehensive Material Flow Engineering (CMFE). Dr. Xu obtained his BS in power engineering from the Nanjing Institute of Technology in 1955. He then graduated from the Energy Institute of the Academy of Sciences of USSR in 1960 and was awarded a doctor degree in technological science. Currently he is a professor and PhD advisor at Beijing Jiaotong University.

Dr. Xu served as the Chairman of the First Council of the China Society of Technological Economics Research, the first Director of the Institute of Technological Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Science, the first Chairman of the Department of Technological Economics of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the President of the Institute of Technological Economics of the State Commission of Planning, PRC. Dr. Xu was also the first Standing Chairman of the China Society of Material Flow Research, the first Chairman of the Special Committee on Material Flow Technological Economics of the China Society of Material Circulation. He has served as an advisor for the State Commission of Energy PRC. He was also a senior advisor of the Ministry of Energy PRC, Director of the Research Bureau of Energy Office of the State Council PRC, a standing Chairman for the First Council of Beijing Energy Society, a standing Chairman of the First Council of the China Research Society of Energy Bases, the first Director of the Energy Technological Economics/Comprehensive Energy Research Department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

In 2001, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.