Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yang Guanghua, or Guang-Hwa Yang was a notable Chinese educator and chemical engineer. Yang was former President of China University of Petroleum, and a pioneer of China''s oil industry. Yang was born in Liuyang, Hunan Province, on 10 Apr 1923. In 1945 he graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. He was a teaching assistant in the same department. In 1948, Yang went to study in the United States, and obtained his Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1951. Yang went back to China in May 1951. Yang was a professor at Peking University and Tsinghua University. In 1953, Yang joined to found the Beijing Petroleum College. In 1956, Yang was a visiting researcher at Moscow Petroleum Institute, USSR. In 1965, Yang was pointed the Vice-president of Beijing Petroleum College. After1969, Yang was Vice-president, later President of East China Petroleum College.