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Liang Shoupan, male, Han nationality, is a native of Fuzhou, Fujian Province. He graduated from Tsinghua University, and received a master's degree from MIT in 1939.

Liang served as senior technical advisor and professor of the China Aviation Industry Corporation, and presided over and completed the modeled manufacture of a Soviet-made ballistic missile in 1958. In the 1960s he invented the double deck metal container. Liang led scientific research personnel in solving the substitutive problems of a fuel used for the liquid rocket, playing a significant role both economically and strategically. He took the position of chief designer of anti-ship missile, solving many key technical problems. The products designed provided the PLA with homemade equipment, and were exported to some foreign countries.

Liang Shoupan was elected as an academician to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.

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