Zhang Ciying, male, Han nationality, is a native of Zhanqiu County, Shandong Province. He was born in 1925 and graduated from the Machinery Department of Wuhan University. Zhang spent two years, from 1957 to 1959, studying automatic control theory in the Mathematical Mechanics Department of Moscow University.
A professor and doctoral student tutor at the information science and engineering school at Northeast University, Zhang achieved significant results in the field of automatic control as well as in the development and manufacturing of weapons. His efforts netted him several major prizes, including the special class labor model of Shenyang, the May 1st Labor Medal, and a first and second prize of scientific progress from the Ministry of Education.
Zhang is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was honored with the Prize for Making Outstanding Contributions in Metallurgical and Military Industry Development.