Ruan Yuan was a successful official as well as a scholar.
A series of officials, including Ruan Yuan and Zhang Zhidong, made improvements to the area.
The commemorative shrine of Zheng Xuan in Shandong was rebuilt under supervision of Ruan Yuan . 朇Q ( 1764 1849 ) in 1793.
Ruan Yuan's version, considered the most careful, was originally published in 1815 and has been reprinted many times subsequently.
Thus, he persuaded Ruan Yuan ( 1764-1849 ) to include a number of Changzhou-originated studies of classics into the " Huang Qing jingjie " 噕n?~ 銐.
One notable example was " Chouren Zhuan " ( 噓篘砅, " Biographies of Astronomers and Mathematicians " ), a book by the Qing dynasty scholar Ruan Yuan which adopted the point of view that some Western sciences had an ancient Chinese origin.
The project was supervised by the governor of Zhejiang, Ruan Yuan ( . 朇Q ), who had the excavated silt piled into a mound, which was then named " Ruan Gong Dun " ( . 杔Q; " Duke Ruan's Pier " ).
The " Shi san jing zhu shu " ( ) is a famous Qing dynasty collection, edited by the scholar Ruan Yuan ( ) ( 1764 1849 ) of the Thirteen Classics of Chinese literature, comparing many editions of each book, together with scholars'commentaries on the books.
Ruan Yuan was a follower of the Han Learning tradition and as such, with the encouragement of Liu Fenglu, he edited and organized publication of the compendium of the imperial achievements in " kaozheng " scholarship, the " Huang Qing Jingjie " ( : zh : 噕n?~ 銐 ) published in 1829.