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Biography

Sun Jiadong, male, Han nationality, is a native of Fuxian County, Liaoning Province. He was born in Gaixian County, also in Liaoning Province. Sun graduated from the Aircraft Design Specialty of Soviet Rukfski Air Force Engineering College in 1958. He is an expert on the overall technology of rocket and satellites.

A former researcher and senior science and technology advisor with the China Aviation Industry Corporation, Sun conducted technical leadership research of the overall design and system engineering of strategic missile and man-made satellites. He acted as the overall director designer for the first intermediate range missile independently created by China. He later was the chief technical individual and chief designer of several man-made satellites and directed the completion of the first remote sensing satellite and the first stationary orbit test satellite of China.

He won the Two Bombs and One Star Meritorious Medal in 1999. Sun was elected as an academician to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.