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. 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 p ...

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 lead ...

and

paramount leader Paramount leader () is an informal term for the most important political figure in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The paramount leader typically controls the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Liberation Army (PLA), often hol ...

from 1989 to 2002.

Biography

Jiang is one of the co-founders of the

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four Direct-administered municipalities of China, direct-administered municipalities of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the ...

-based Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, which gained some coverage in the US press for their employment of

Bush family The Bush family is an American dynastic family that is prominent in the fields of American politics, news, sports, entertainment, and business. They were the first family of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and again from 2001 to 2009, and w ...

member

Neil Bush Neil Mallon Bush (born January 22, 1955) is an American businessman and investor. He is the fourth of six children of former President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush (née Pierce). His five siblings are George W. Bush, the 43rd President o ...

as a general consultant. He holds a PhD in

Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

from

Drexel University Drexel University is a private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Drexel's undergraduate school was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a financier and philanthropist. Founded as Drexel Institute of Art, ...

with a dissertation titled ''Point contact tunneling study of the high transition temperature superconductor Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O₈'' 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 The space program of the People's Republic of China is directed by the China National Space Administration (CNSA). China's space program has overseen the development and launch of ballistic missiles, thousands of artificial satellites, manned ...

. 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

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. 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 The liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR; often pronounced ''lifter'') is a type of molten salt reactor. LFTRs use the thorium fuel cycle with a fluoride-based, molten, liquid salt for fuel. In a typical design, the liquid is pumped between a ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jiang, Mianheng 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