Zhang Shuguang (engineer)

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Not to be confused with Zhang Shuguang, the former provincial leader of Hebei and Inner Mongolia.

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zhang.

Zhang Shuguang (Chinese: 张曙光; born December 1956) was the deputy chief engineer of Ministry of Railways and the deputy chief designer of the Chinese high-speed railway. He has since been sacked for corruption in the high speed rail projects.^[1] He is estimated to have misappropriated $2.8 billion to his personal overseas accounts.^[2]

Zhang was born in Shanghai but is considered a native of his ancestral home Liyang, Jiangsu by Chinese convention. He graduated from Lanzhou Railway University in 1982.^[3]

References

↑ Off the rails? economist.com| 31 March 2011
↑ A Body, a Scandal and China| By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF nyt.com April 21, 2012
↑ "科学中国人2008年度候选人：张曙光".

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Name	Zhang, Shuguang
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Date of birth	1956
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