Ma Jianzhang
Ma Jianzhang (; 20 July 1937 – 23 December 2022) was a Chinese zoologist, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Biography
Ma was born in Fuxin County (now Fuxin), Jinzhou Province, Manchukuo, on 20 July 1937, but grew up in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia. In 1956, he entered Northeast Forestry University, where he majored in forestry. In 1961, he was admitted to Harbin Normal University, where he studied vertebrate taxonomy and ecology under . After graduating in 1962, Ma returned to and taught at Northeast Forestry University. In 1970, he was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to do farm works in Yilan County, Heilongjiang. In 1973, he was appointed deputy director of the Department of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, rising to director in 1980. In 1992, he was proposed as the founding dean of the College of Wildlife Resources, and served until 1999. On 23 December 2022, Ma died in Harbin, Heilongjiang, at the age of 85. Honours and awards
 1988 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
 1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

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1937 births
2022 deaths
People from Fuxin
People from Tongliao
Scientists from Liaoning
Northeast Forestry University alumni
Harbin Normal University alumni
Academic staff of Northeast Forestry University
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
20th-century Chinese zoologists
21st-century Chinese zoologists