Qin Shunquan,born in Deyang, Sichuan province in 1963, is the academician of CAE, professor senior engineer, double hired academician and doctoral supervisor of the Southwest Jiaotong University, and he is also the national model worker, and the tenth and eleventh NPC. Qin received his M.C.E degree in Bridges and structure engineering from the Southwest Jiaotong University in 1987. He devoted himself to the design, research and construction technology work of the large bridge, and has got outstanding achievements in bridge installation and control technology, the design and construction technology of large span bridges, industrial and standardised construction technology, critical equipment research, etc.

Academician Qin's greatest found is the unstressed state control thory of bridge constructed in stages, which has successfully and widely used in the engineering construction all over the world. To adapt to different construction conditions and meet different functional requirements, he has put forward diverse new structure style and construction technology which had solved several technical problems when designed and constructed. He also advanced the industrial and standardised construction method for large-scale bridge structure, and promoted the development of  precast and erect technology in integrity for the over-sea bridge and the passenger dedicated line bridge.

Qin presided over many bridges' technical work, such as Wuhan Tianxingzhou Yangtze river rail-cum-road bridge, Nanjing Dashengguan Yangtze River bridge, the Qinghai-Tibet railway of Lhasa River bridge, the East Sea bridge, the Hangzhou bay bridge, the West Bay bridge in Macao, the Haikou Century bridge and so on, and successfully completed more than 30 times significant national, provincial and ministerial research projects.