Feng Jie

Feng Jie

Feng Jie (1891-1979), a native of Shanwei village, Shanwei Township, Beiliu County, Guangxi Province. He has successively served as a deputy to the third National People's Congress, a member of the fourth CPPCC National Committee, and a deputy to the Guangxi Regional People's Congress. He has been actively committed to the work of the people's democratic united front, uniting and contacting scientists and educators at home and abroad, and has made great contributions to national construction. He is a famous railway bridge expert and scholar in China. In Jiaoji Road, Huhang Road, Xianggui Road, served as railway engineer, director, etc. He is as famous as Liang Sicheng, director of Civil Engineering Department of Tsinghua University, and has the reputation of "North Liang and South Feng".

His father, Feng Wan, was a tributary of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, a member of Guangxu, and a first-class member of the grand selection. He once served as a magistrate of Jingjiang and Xinyang counties in Jiangsu Province.

Educational experience

At the age of 7, Feng Jie started his education in his hometown rongcun private school. At the age of 12, he went to study in Suzhou, where his father lived. He studied in China public school in Shanghai since 1906. He was admitted to the railway department of Shanghai College of industry in 1909. Soon after, the school was transformed into the Shanghai Industrial School of the Ministry of communications, so he studied in the Department of civil engineering of the school and graduated in 1913. In the spring of 1914, Guangxi was the first to send students abroad. Feng Jie won the first place with excellent results and was recommended to study in the United States.

Study abroad

As soon as I arrived in the United States, I received a notice from the Guangxi provincial government to cancel the public fee treatment. In order not to abandon his studies, he first worked as a waiter in Chicago Chinese restaurant to solve his tuition. In September of the same year, he entered the Civil Engineering Department of Illich University and graduated in 1915. the following year, he graduated from the Graduate School of the University of Illinois with a master's degree. Because of his excellent performance, he was retained by the US government. He first became a Chicago railway surveyor and then transferred to New York railway supervisor. He became a Deputy Engineer and worked in the US railway for 12 years.

Experience of returning to the motherland

In the spring of 1929, he gave up his rich material life in the United States and returned to China to participate in railway construction. chairman of the Guangxi provincial government, Huang Shaohong, appointed Feng as the technical principal and Secretary of the provincial government and introduced his niece, Huang Jingrong, who graduated from Sino British girls' school in Hong Kong, as his wife. After his marriage, Feng was not interested in the comfortable life, so he decided to take his family to Qingdao to work as an engineer, section chief and track office director of Jiaoji railway. After the Lugouqiao Incident in 1937, the Japanese army invaded China on a large scale, and Feng Jie was forced to go south. He successively served as an engineer and chief of the engineering section of the new road engineering department of the Ministry of communications, and an engineer and director of the technical group of the Hunan Guangxi Railway Council. At this time, most of the bridges along the Hunan Guangxi railway were designed by him. In 1944, the Japanese army invaded Guangxi and evacuated Guilin. He was forced to return to his hometown. The next spring, he worked as a professor in Wuxi Guoxue school, which was relocated from Guilin to Beiliu Shanwei, and served his mother nearby. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, he returned to Guilin and successively served as the technical consultant of Guangxi relief branch, the special member of Hunan Guangxi railway and the director of Guilin joint office. In 1949, he was employed as a professor and Dean of Guangxi University of science and technology. In 1950, when Zhang Yunyi, chairman of the Guangxi Provincial People's government, learned that Feng Jie had returned to his hometown, he recommended him to work in Beijing's Ministry of railways. However, in order to take care of his 83 year old mother, he only agreed to work as a professor at Xijiang University in Nanning, and then as a professor at XiXiangTang branch of Guangxi revolutionary University and vice president of Guangxi Hydropower College. From 1959 to 1979, he was director and professor of Civil Engineering Department of Guangxi University. He is as famous as Liang Sicheng, director of the Civil Engineering Department of Tsinghua University, for his profound knowledge and superb technology,

In the field of architecture, it is known as "North Liang and South Feng"

. Due to the poor construction quality of Nanning Department store, soon after the completion of the project, the wall under the wall foundation had a penetrating longitudinal crack. Some people in the engineering circles thought that it was impossible to repair it, but the municipal construction department adopted Feng Jie's plan to repair it, and it still stands. Feng Jie had been impacted in the "Cultural Revolution". After 1969, he resumed his work, was inspired, actively led his apprentices, and enthusiastically imparted his knowledge and experience to young teachers. He is loyal to love and has no children after marriage. He often says, "it doesn't matter if you have no children, as long as the Chinese nation is prosperous.". after the founding of new China, he has successively served as deputy to the third National People's Congress, member of the Fourth National Committee of the CPPCC, deputy to the people's Congress of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, standing member of the CPPCC, vice chairman of the Science Association of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, etc. He died in Nanning in 1979 at the age of 88. According to the will, he and his wife Huang Jingrong's ashes were scattered in Beibu Gulf.

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