Chi Zhiqiang

Chi Zhiqiang (Chinese: 池志强; 16 November 1924 – 7 January 2020) was a Chinese pharmacologist and researcher at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Chi was born in Huangyan County, Zhejiang, Republic of China (1912-1949), on November 16, 1924, to Chi Yun (池云), a surveying and mapping technician.^{[citation needed]} He was the third of five children. He attended Huangyan Middle School and Zhejiang Provincial Taizhou High School.^{[citation needed]} In 1943 he was accepted to Zhejiang University, where he graduated in 1949.^{[citation needed]}

After university, he was assigned to Zhejiang Provincial Bureau of Culture. He joined the Communist Party of China in January 1949.^[1] In July 1953 he joined the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, becoming its deputy director in 1978.^{[citation needed]} In 1983 he was promoted to become deputy dean of Shanghai Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.^{[citation needed]}

On January 7, 2020, he died at Huadong Hospital, in Shanghai.^[2]

In the early 1950s, schistosomiasis was widespread in the Yangtze River Basin, he participated in the study of schistosomiasis eradication.^{[citation needed]}

• 1991 State Natural Science Award (Second Class)^{[citation needed]}
• 1997 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering^{[citation needed]}