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Biography

Zhang Xiaoxiang, male, Han nationality, is a native of Haining, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from Wuhan University.

Zhang spent his career as a researcher for the Computing Technology Research Institute of the PLA and played an important role in the establishment, extension and development of computer industry in China. In the late 1950s, Zhang supervised the simulation of the first large-scale electronic computer in common use in China. Over the next 35 years, he presided over the research and manufacture of various generations of electronic computers designed in China from radio tube transistors to large scale integrated circuits.

By the mid 1970s, Zhang led and developed the exploration, research and manufacture of the first multiprocessor and national computer system projects. In 1985, he completed the first 1G giant concurrent computer system in China.

He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.