1934, graduated from national chiao tung university Institute of Mechanical and Power Engineering, and was once a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology. Thanks to the efforts of President Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai, he returned to China. 1959 joined the China * * * production party, and served as the director of the Department of Modern Mechanics of the University of Science and Technology of China and the director of the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1995, with the approval of the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China and the consent of Qian Xuesen himself, his alma mater Xi Jiaotong University named the library Qian Xuesen Library, and then General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, president and Jiang Zemin, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, personally wrote the name of the library. On June 5438+1October 365438+1October 2009, at 8: 06 am Beijing time, Qian Xuesen died in Beijing at the age of 98.
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At the beginning of 1956, Qian Xuesen put forward the Opinions on Establishing China's National Defense Aviation Industry to the Central Committee and the State Council. At the same time, Qian Xuesen established the first rocket and missile research institute in China, the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense, and served as the first president. He presided over the completion of the plan of "establishing jet and rocket technology" and participated in the development of short-range missiles, medium-and short-range missiles and China's first artificial earth satellite.
Directly led the "two-bomb combination" test of medium and short-range missiles carrying atomic bombs, participated in the formulation of the "two-bomb combination" test of short-range missiles carrying atomic bombs in China, participated in the formulation of China's first interstellar aviation development plan, and developed and established engineering cybernetics and systematics.
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