| Office1: | President of Peking University | ||||||||||||||||||
| Term Start1: | November 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Term End1: | November 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor1: | Chen Jia'er | ||||||||||||||||||
| Successor1: | Zhou Qifeng | ||||||||||||||||||
| Xu Zhihong | |||||||||||||||||||
| Native Name: | 许智宏 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 14 October 1942 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Wuxi, Jiangsu, China | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | Peking University | ||||||||||||||||||
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Xu Zhihong (born 1942) is a Chinese botanist and former President of Peking University. He is a former vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2009, Zhihong was conferred upon the award of Hilal-i-Quaid-i-Azam in recognition of his services to Pakistan.[1] Asteroid 90826 Xuzhihong, discovered by the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program in 1995, was named in his honor. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 October 2009 .