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Biography

Cao Jianlin, male, Han nationality, is a native of Changchun City, Jilin Province. He was born in 1955 and is a member of the CPC. He holds a doctoral degree.

Cao presided over the development of the Changchun Institute of Optical Machine and Physics and carried out reforms to turn it into a successful research facility under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His leadership with the institute led to it being listed as first in comprehensive strength among all of the educational institutes at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The winner of two second prizes of technology progress from the academy, he was awarded a national prominent youth fund prize and a technology prize from the China Optics Society. Cao is a top-grade model laborer in Jiln Province and is a member of International Engineering Optics Association. In addition, he holds the secretary-general position of the China Optics Society and the deputy director-general post at the Jilin Provincial Optics Association.

Cao serves as the director of the National Key Laboratory of Applied Optics and the director of the Changchun Institute of Optical Machine and Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2006 he became Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

In 2015 he was named Deputy Director of the National Construction Leading Group for Manufacturing Powerful Country.