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Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2002-2006

Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
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Revision History:

Biography Revised: 5/16/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006

PHOTO: Liang Sili
Liang Sili 梁思礼
Missile Control Expert

Biography

Liang Sili, male, Han nationality, is a native of Xinhui, Guangdong Province. He graduated from Purdue University in the USA and obtained a doctorate degree from Cincinnati University in 1949.

Liang served as advisor of the Science and Technology Committee of the China Aviation Industry Corporation and academician of the China Academy of Space Navigation Science. He actively participated in the founding of China's spaceflight industry. He was responsible for R&D of certain inertial guidance systems of intermediate-range ground-to-ground missiles with Chinese characteristics. Liang contributed to the successful testing of missiles and nuclear weapons in 1966, and presided over R&D of the control system of long-distance missile and "Long March" rockets in the 1970s. He initially developed inertia platform,missile-carried computer guidance schemes and used missile-carried computers for whole missile testing. He participated in launching long-distance rocket tests to the Pacific in 1980. He initiated spaceflight reliability engineering, and greatly improving the reliability of the "Long March " rocket. He presided over R&D of the CAMAE system, making missile and satellite ground testing generalized and standardized. Liang actively drove spaceflight CAD/CAM technology and directed development of AVIDM integration framework software.

Liang Sili was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993.

Career Data

1993— Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Advisor, China Aviation Industry Corporation, Science and Technology Committee
1949 Graduate, University of Cincinnati USA, Ohio, Cincinnati (Received Doctorate)
1945 Graduate, Purdue University USA, Indiana, West Lafayette


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