Qian Xuesen (191.12.1-2009.10.31), male, Han nationality, native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, party member. He has served as vice chairman of the 6th, 7th and 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, honorary chairman of China Association for Science and Technology, and vice chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He was awarded the rank of Lieutenant General by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai.

Comrade Qian Xuesen is an important pioneer and one of the main founders of human space science and technology, a world-class authority in the aviation field, a third-generation player in aerodynamics, the founder of engineering cybernetics, and a leader in applied mathematics and applied mechanics in the 20th century-the most outstanding scientist in the field of applied science in the 20th century. In the 1940s, he became the most outstanding representative in the aerospace field, keeping pace with his mentor von Carmen, and marked by the publication of Engineering Cybernetics, he greatly surpassed the master of science von Carmen in academic achievements and became one of the most brilliant few superstars among many scientific stars in the 20th century. Comrade Qian Xuesen is also an outstanding representative of the older generation of scientists, and has made inestimable contributions to the growth of new China. He is the most representative national builder among patriotic returnees in New China and a great people's scientist in the history of New China. Known as "the father of China's space flight", "the father of Chinese missiles", "the king of rockets" and "the father of China's automation control". The State Council and the Central Military Commission awarded the honorary title of "National Outstanding Contribution Scientist" and won the "Two Bombs and One Satellite" Meritorious Medal awarded by the Central Military Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council.

Qian Xuesen 19 1 1 year1February was born in Shanghai, and his ancestral home was in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. /kloc-0 entered the middle school affiliated to Beijing Normal University in September, 1923, and/kloc-0 was admitted to department of mechanical engineering of Jiaotong University in September, 1929. 1June, 934, he was admitted to Tsinghua University as a publicly-funded international student. In September of the following year, he entered the Aviation Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1936, and transferred to the Aviation Department of California Institute of Technology, where he studied under the world-famous aerodynamics professor von Carmen, and successively obtained a master's degree in aviation engineering and a doctorate in aviation mathematics. From July 1938 to August 1955, Qian Xuesen worked in the fields of aerodynamics, solid mechanics, rockets and missiles in the United States, and completed the research project of high-speed aerodynamics with his tutor, and established the "Carmen-Qian approximation" formula, thus becoming a world-famous aerodynamist at the age of 28.

1950, Comrade Qian Xuesen began to strive to return to the motherland. Kimble, then undersecretary of the US Navy, declared: "Qian Xuesen is worth five divisions wherever he goes. I would rather kill him in America than let him leave. " Comrade Qian Xuesen was persecuted by the American government, placed under house arrest and lost his freedom.

From June 65438 to June 0955, through the continuous efforts of Premier Zhou Enlai in diplomatic negotiations with the United States-even at the expense of releasing 1 1 an American prisoner of war captured in the Korean War, Comrade Qian Xuesen finally broke through various obstacles and returned to the motherland. 1958 Since April, he has been the technical director of rocket, missile and spacecraft development for a long time.

At the beginning of 1956, Qian Xuesen put forward "Opinions on Establishing China's National Defense Aviation Industry" to the Central Committee and the State Council; In the same year, according to his suggestion, the State Council and the Central Military Commission established the Aviation Industry Committee, the leading body of missile and aviation research, and appointed him as a member.