(APQO: Cainta, Rizal, Philippines) -- The first Armand V. Feigenbaum Lifetime Achievement Medal, established by the Asia Pacific Quality Organization (APQO) and the Walter L. Hurd Foundation, was presented on Nov. 1, 2011, to Yuanzhang Liu, Ph.D., a research professor of the Academy of Math and System Sciences, Shanghai, China. Liu received this medal in recognition of his promotion of total quality management (TQM) in China for more than 50 years during which time he accomplished many firsts.

The following are some of Liu’s accomplishments:
• He founded the first research group of TQM for China in 1957.
• He opened the first training seminar on quality control in China in 1957.
• He was the first to write a series of weekly articles to introduce quality control in Workers Daily, the economics newspaper with circulation throughout China.
• He was the first to create and host a TV program on TQM in 1979.
• He was the first editor-and-chief of the China edition of Quality Magazine.

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