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Zhang Yong | |||||||
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| Born | March 1956 (age 68) Horinger County, Inner Mongolia, China | ||||||
| Alma mater | Inner Mongolia Agricultural University Northwest Agricultural University | ||||||
| Scientific career | |||||||
| Fields | Agronomy | ||||||
| Institutions | Northwest A&F University | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 張湧 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 张涌 | ||||||
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Zhang Yong (Chinese: 张涌; born March 1956) is a Chinese agronomist who is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Northwest A&F University. His scientific pursuits integrated the fields of animal cloning, transgenic technique and animal embryo engineering.[1]
Zhang was born in Horinger County, Inner Mongolia, in March 1956. He received his bachelor's degree from Inner Mongolia Institute of Agriculture& Animal Husbandry (now Inner Mongolia Agricultural University) in 1982, and his master's degree and doctor's degree from Northwest Agricultural University (now Northwest A&F University) in 1984 and 1990, respectively. After graduation, he was offered a faculty position at the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the university.[2]