Qian Qihu
He is a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering[1] and winner of the Highest Science and Technology Award.Qian was born in October 1937 in Kunshan, Jiangsu, after the Imperial Japanese Army occupied Shanghai.[2] He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army in 1954 and joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1956.After graduating from the PLA Military Institute of Engineering (now National University of Defense Technology) in 1960, he was sent abroad to study at the Gubischev Military Engineering Institute in Moscow at the expense of the Chinese government.[citation needed] In 1993 he was elected a member of the 8th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.