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Academician in cloth shoes

布鞋院士 (buxie yuanshi)

Li Xiaowen, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a famous remote sensing scientist with Beijing Normal University, is known among the public as "the academician wearing cloth shoes". He died of an illness in Beijing on Jan 10 at the age of 67. The State leaders, including Premier Li Keqiang, sent floral wreaths to his memorial on Friday, which more than 1,000 people, including his colleagues from all walks of life, attended.