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Biography

Huang Weilu, male, Han nationality, is a native of Wuhu, Anhui Province. He graduated from Central University. He obtained a master's degree from the Imperial College of London University in 1947.

Huang has served as a senior technical consultant of the China Aviation Industry Corporation and a general consultant of the 2nd Institute of the corporation. In the late 1950s, he held the position of chief designer of fluid strategic missile control systems. Huang was instrumental in this field and initiated the solutions of many key technical problems. In the early 1970s, he was engaged in pioneering developments concerning solid strategic missiles launched from submarines. He and his colleagues determined technical routines and projects that tackled key problems. Determined to adopt several new technologies, such as underwater launching, Huang successfully developed China's first generation of solid submerged ground missiles and ground-to-ground engine-driven solid ballistic missiles. This development made China the fourth country in the world that can launch solid strategic missiles from nuclear submarines, and contributed to laying the technical foundation for China's second generation of strategic missile research.

Huang was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.