The obituary of founder of Chinese domestic colour film Zou Jing was in colour in order to remember her outstanding contribution to the photographic materials and colour film industry in China, in accordance with the wishes of her family.
Many mainland netizens were moved by the special obituary. One netizen commented that when her child saw Zou Jing, he said, "The grandma looks so gentle."
Zou Jing, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a renowned expert in photosensitive materials, passed away in Tianjin at the age of 86 on June 9. She had led a team to develop China's first generation of domestic high-temperature rapid processing of colour film negative and civilian colour film.
In the summer of 1955, Zou Jing went to the Soviet Union to study film manufacturing and printing processing, which was still a gap in China at that time.
After returning from her studies, Zou Jing led her team through seven years of scientific research and finally developed China's first generation of domestic high-temperature fast-processing colour negative film and colour film for civilian use in 1985.
In 1986, Lucky 100 daylight colour film (II) was officially put into industrial production, achieving a breakthrough in the production of colour film and ending the history of China's inability to produce colour film.In order to narrow the gap with foreign brand-name products as soon as possible, Zou Jing led the team to develop several different film in the following years.
The introduction of Lucky film gradually equalised foreign brands in terms of technology and results, bringing colour photography to more and more ordinary Chinese families in the 1990s.
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