Born on March 29, 1940 in Nanchong, Sichuan Province, he is an expert in solid ionics and energy materials, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a researcher at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the technical director and doctoral supervisor of Beijing Xingheng Power Co., Ltd.

He graduated from the Department of Physics of the University of Science and Technology of China in 1964 and joined the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences;

From 1976 to 1978, he studied at the Institute of Solids of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science in West Germany;

In 1980, he established China's first solid ionics laboratory at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences;

In 1987, he served as the general person in charge of the "863" plan "Seventh Five-Year Plan" energy storage materials (polymer lithium batteries) project;

In 1999, he took the lead in establishing Beijing Xingheng Power Co., Ltd.;

In 2001, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Chen Liquan was the first to develop lithium-ion batteries in China, realizing the industrialization of lithium-ion batteries, discovering signs of superconductivity at 70K for the first time, developing liquid nitrogen temperature zone superconductors and announcing the material composition for the first time.