Yang Xuejun

Chinese academic and educator

杨学军

Yang Xuejun in 2019

President of the PLA Academy of Military Science

Incumbent

Assumed office
July 2017Preceded byZheng HePresident of the National University of Defense TechnologyIn office
June 2011 – July 2017Preceded byZhang YulinSucceeded byDeng Xiaogang Personal detailsBornApril 1963 (age 61)
Wucheng County, Shandong, ChinaPolitical partyChinese Communist PartyAlma materNanjing Institute of Technology
National University of Defense TechnologyProfessionComputer scienceMilitary serviceAllegiance

People's Republic of ChinaBranch/service

People's Liberation Army Ground ForceYears of service1979–presentRank

GeneralChinese nameTraditional Chinese楊學軍Simplified Chinese杨学军

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yáng Xuéjūn

Yang Xuejun (Chinese: 杨学军; born April 1963) is a Chinese educator and computer scientist currently serving as president of the PLA Academy of Military Science. Previously he served as president of the National University of Defense Technology. He was promoted to the rank of major general (shaojiang) in 2004, lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in August 2013 and general (shangjiang) in December 2019.^[1]

Education

Yang was born in Wucheng County, Shandong in April 1963. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in September 1979. In July 1983 he graduated from Nanjing Institute of Technology. In December 1984 he joined the Chinese Communist Party. He received his master's degree and doctor's degree in engineering from National University of Defense Technology in 1985 and 1991, respectively.

Career

After graduation, he taught there, where he was vice-president in 2009 and president in July 2011. In 1994, at the age of 31, he became chief designer of supercomputer YH-3 and later became chief designer of Tianhe-1. He has been president of the PLA Academy of Military Science since July 2017.^[2]

He was a delegate to the 9th National People's Congress. He was a delegate to the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He was an alternate member of the 18th CCP Central Committee. He is a member of the 19th CCP Central Committee.

Honours and awards

1998 National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
2011 Science and Technology Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
2012 Chen Jiageng Science Award
December 2011 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

References

^ 7人晋升上将军衔何卫东升任东部战区司令(图). sina.com.cn (in Chinese). 13 December 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
^ Zhong Yuhao (钟煜豪) (19 July 2017). 杨学军任军事科学院院长，方向任政治委员. thepaper (in Chinese). Retrieved 13 December 2019.

Educational offices
Preceded by Zhang Yulin	President of the National University of Defense Technology 2011–2017	Succeeded by Deng Xiaogang (scientist) [zh]
Preceded by Zheng He (born 1958)	President of the PLA Academy of Military Science 2017	Incumbent