Jiang Mianheng (; born 1 April 1951) is a Chinese physicist and business executive. He has served as Vice President of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republi ...
and the first President of
ShanghaiTech University
ShanghaiTech University (Shanghai Tech; ) is a public research university in Shanghai, China. The university is founded by contracts between the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The university has bee ...
. His father was
Jiang Zemin
Jiang Zemin (17 August 1926 – 30 November 2022) was a Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as pr ...
,
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
The general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party () is the head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Since 1989, the CCP general secretary has been the paramount leader ...
and
paramount leader from 1989 to 2002.
Biography
Jiang is one of the co-founders of the
Shanghai
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-based Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, which gained some coverage in the US press for their employment of
Bush family
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member
Neil Bush
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as a general consultant. He holds a PhD in
Electrical Engineering from
Drexel University with a dissertation titled ''Point contact tunneling study of the high transition temperature superconductor Bi
2Sr
2CaCu
2O
8'' in 1991, where his father went for a visit in 1997. Jiang also served as one of the head researchers for the
Chinese space program
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. In 2007, he failed to win nomination as a delegate to the
17th Party Congress.
He served as one of the Vice Presidents in the
Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republi ...
up until November 2011, then he became President of the Academy's Shanghai branch until 2015.
In 2014 he was appointed president of the newly established
ShanghaiTech University
ShanghaiTech University (Shanghai Tech; ) is a public research university in Shanghai, China. The university is founded by contracts between the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The university has bee ...
.
Jiang has headed a number of national research programs in alternative energy and other technologies: "coal liquefaction, electric cars, mobile phone networks, particle accelerators, spaceships, lunar satellites and
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
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."
References
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1951 births
Living people
20th-century Chinese businesspeople
21st-century Chinese businesspeople
Businesspeople from Shanghai
Children of national leaders of China
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shanghai
Drexel University alumni
Fudan University alumni
Jiang Zemin family
People's Republic of China politicians from Shanghai
Presidents of ShanghaiTech University
Physicists from Shanghai