Xiong weiping biography of barack

CITATION
Award of Doctor of Engineering honoris causa
Dr Xiong Weiping

Chancellor,

Dr Xiong Weiping is Chairman and General Manager of the Aluminium Corporation of China (CHINALCO), China's largest metals/mining corporation, and is also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of its subsidiary, Aluminium Corporation of China Limited (CHALCO).

CHALCO plays a significant role in the Queensland bauxite industry.

Dr Xiong is a distinguished minerals engineer and economist. He has a PhD from Central South University in minerals engineering, and also studied economics, focusing on financial engineering, at Beijing University.

He has published four books and more than 40 academic papers in these combined fields.

He is Deputy President of the China Nonferrous Metal Industries Group Commission, Deputy Chairman of the International Aluminium Institute, and President of the China Association of Resource Comprehensive Utilisation.

Before joining CHINALCO, Dr