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Biography

Zhao Renkai, male, Han nationality, is a native of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from Central University in 1946.

As a technical principal in the research and design of submarine nuclear power, Zhao Renkai proposed the preliminary design plan and participated and presided over the research, design and testing of nuclear power in China. He also contributed to the research and manufacture of nuclear submarines.

As one of the major technical principals on the research, design and debugging of land-based reactors, Zhao provided the practical experience necessary for the development of submarine nuclear power and the operation of the navy nuclear submarine army in China. As the chief designer and principal researcher of the design of submarine nuclear power, he presided over the completion of the service life operation test and examination and the process of uncapping and unloading of the land-based mode reactor. Zhao also led and organized the research and design of a new generation of advanced submarine nuclear power.

Zhao is an academician of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the China Academy of Engineering.