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Born in Huaxian, Shaanxi Province, 'Yang Zhongjian' (Chinese: 杨钟健) (1897-1979), courtesy name (''Zi'') Keqiang (克强), also known as C.C. (Chung Chien) Young, was one of China's foremost paleontologists. He has been called the 'Father of Chinese vertebrate paleontology'.
Yang graduated from the Geological department of Beijing University in 1923 and in 1927 received his doctorate at Munich University in Germany. He had professorial posts at the Geological Survey, Beijing University, and Northwest University of Xi'an. Yang's scientific work was instrumental in the creation of China's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, which houses one of the most important collections in the world. He was director
of both the IVPP and the Beijing Natural History Museum.
Yang supervised the collection and research of dinosaurs in China from 1933 into the 1970s. He presided over some of the most important fossil discoveries in history, such as the prosauropods ''Lufengosaurus'' and ''Yunnanosaurus'', the Ornithopod ''Tsintaosaurus'', and the gigantic sauropod ''Mamenchisaurus'', as well as China's first stegosaur ''Chialingosaurus''.

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★ Dinosaurian Faunas of China, Dong Zhiming, , , China Ocean Press, Beijing, 1992, ISBN 3-540-52084-8