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Biography

Min Guirong, male, Han nationality, is a native of Putian, Fujian Province. He graduated from Nanjing Institute of Technology in 1956 and obtained an assistant doctorate degree from the Dynamical Research Institute of Soviet Academy of Science in 1963.

Beginning in the 1960s, Min engaged in space technology work. He served as a researcher at the China Space Technology Research Institute. In his research, Min founded the space thermal physics branch discipline and solved a series of science and technology problems such as thermal control of man-made-satellites.

Since the 1980s, Min has led the research and development work of Chinese photographic positioning satellites and micro-gravity carrying experiments on retrievable satellites. He later directed work in the space flight field of China's 863 Plan.

In 1991, he was elected as an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.