Dinghuan Shi

Biography

    Mr. Shi Dinghuan is Independent Non-Executive Director of United Photovoltaics Group Limited. Mr. Shi was appointed as an independent non-executive director of the Company on 10 June 2013. Mr. Shi is a Counselor of the State Council of the PRC, the chairman of China Renewable Energy Society and deputy president of China Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration Association. Mr. Shi had worked in the Nuclear Energy Technology Institute of Tsinghua University since November 1973. In October 1980, he joined the State Commission of Science and Technology of PRC (“SSTC”), the Former of Ministry of Science and Technology (“MOST”)). He was once appointed as the deputy division chief of the Forecasting Bureau of the SSTC, deputy director of the Industrial Technology Bureau of the SSTC, director of the Department of Industrial Science and Technology of the SSTC. He then take up the position as the deputy director of the Deputy Director-General of the High and New Technology Department and Industrial Department (directorate grade) of the PRC. In June 1988, he also acted as the officer of the “Torch Programme” office of the SSTC. Mr. Shi took the office of the Secretary General of MOST in August 2001. Since June 2003, he has been a member of the Mid-and-Long- Term Project Planning Office for National Science and Technology Development and the leader of the Strategic Research Group. In March 2004, Mr. Shi was appointed as the Counselor of the State Council of the PRC. Mr. Shi has taken part in the implementation of the Seventh Five-Year-Plan of national economy and the Mid-and-Long-Term Plan of Technology Development 1991-2000. Mr. Shi has also contributed to the formulation of technology programmes and the implementation of key technology projects in hi-tech areas for the Eighth and Ninth Five-Year-Plans. He has been taking part in various hi-tech industrialisation programmes, such as High & New Technology Industries Deve

Research Interest

 Green Chemistry, Sustainability, renewable resources, biomass, biofuel, Green Engineering, green industrial applications, green investments, green process, green energy, biomaterials, nanotechnology, waste management, water treatment, bioreactors, bioprocessing, green economy