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A pioneer in electrical engineering
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THE inventor of China’s first dual inner water-cooled turbo-generator was a Songjiang native whose achievements are still the pride of the district.
Born in the town of Yexie, Shou Junliang was a top student at school. When the May Fourth Patriotic Movement erupted in 1919, attacking imperialism and feudalism, he joined demonstrations and boycotted Japanese goods.
In the same year, Shou entered Nanyang School, the forerunner of today’s Jiao Tong University, where he majored in electrical engineering.
In 1923, he began working as an assistant engineer in a local factory. However, a year later the factory was unable to pay its debts and a Japanese company took it over. Shou, who didn’t want to work for the Japanese, quit his job and went to the US, where he undertook graduate studies at Purdue University.
While overseas, Shou did internships at power stations and motor factories to accumulate practical experience to take back to China.
In 1928, Shou returned to Shanghai and taught courses at Jiao Tong University. Two years later, he was promoted to professor, and 10 years later, he took over as head of the electrical engineering department at Xiamen University in Fujian Province.
In 1953, Shou shifted to Zhejiang University and began research into generators. After six years of trial and error, he invented China’s first dual inner water-cooled turbo-generator. Because the specific heat of the water is 50 times greater than that of air, the generator was smaller than other generators, cost less to make and was convenient to operate.
Shou was personally received by then Chinese President Liu Shaoqi, who thanked him for his contributions to the country.
In 1962, the professor ceased class teaching because of an arm ailment, but he continued to mentor young teachers.
In 1979, he was invited by the Ministry of Water Resources and Electrical Power to edit the English-Chinese Dictionary of Electrical Technology.
“It’s my great honor to dedicate myself to the country’s development,” he wrote in a book preface.
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