Jiang Zejia

Jiang was born in November 1920 in Hankou, Hubei, with his ancestral home in Jingde County, Anhui.^[2] After the high school, he studied, then taught, at what is now Chongqing University. He went to study at McGill University in Canada in 1947.^{[citation needed]}

He returned to China in 1948 and that year joined the Department of Electrical Engineering faculty of Chongqing University, he was promoted to professor in 1951. In 1951 Chongqing University appointed him director of its Electrical Engineering Department. In 1982, he became President of Chongqing University, serving until 1986. On November 10, 2013, he died of illness in the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University.^[2]