Xu Zhizhan, male, Han nationality, is a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu province. He was born in 1938 and obtained a master's degree from Beijing University. Xu served as director of the Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he has achieved major breakthroughs in the research of laser nuclear fusion. Xu was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1992.