China Vitae

Biography

Wei Yu, female, Zhuang nationality, is a native of Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. She was born in 1940, received a doctorate from Aachen Industrial University in 1981, and joined the CPC in 1983.

Wei Yu spent the early part of her career working in various capacities at the Nanjing Institute of Technology which was renamed the East China University in 1998. In 1994 she was named an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Wei studied electronics and bioelectronics, which resulted in a theory of imagery of biomedicine, a theory and technique of metal non-damage testing with ultrasonic imagery in particular. Her ultrasonic back-wave fault testing system with computer technology won a State Education Commission class-2 prize for scientific and technological progress. Wei is also the author of a paper titled "Theoretical Basis for Re-Formation of CT Images.?

In 1998 Wei Yu was named vice-minister education.