The 56-year-old Wang Zhaoyao is the deputy director of the Equipment Development Depar

The deputy leadership of the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission entered and exited.Among them, the 56-year-old Major General Wang Zhaoyao, the former director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office, is the new deputy director of the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission.The 60-year-old Lieutenant General Zhang Yulin stepped down as the deputy director of the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission.

According to the Xidian University News Network, on the morning of October 17, the Fifth High-Resolution Earth Observation Academic Annual Conference opened at Xidian Yuanwanggu Gymnasium.Wang Zhaoyao, deputy director of the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission, and Lan Jianwen, deputy secretary-general of the Shaanxi Provincial Government, delivered opening speeches.This is Wang Zhaoyao's first public report with a new identity.

According to Yancheng News Network, Wang Zhaoyao was born in Binhai County, Yancheng, Jiangsu in February 1962, and holds a doctorate.He enlisted in the army in 1977, was admitted to the National University of Defense Technology in 1981, and worked in aerospace management in the Science and Technology Department of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission in 1983.Wang Zhaoyao participated in a number of satellite engineering and aerospace engineering projects. He used to be the deputy director of the Aerospace Technology Bureau of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission, the director of the Aerospace Equipment Bureau of the Electronic Information Foundation Department of the General Armament Department, the deputy commander of a group army, and the deputy director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office.Director, spokesman for manned spaceflight engineering.

Wang Zhaoyao was promoted to major general in 2007. In March 2012, he became the director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office. At the latest in May 2015, he was appointed as the director of the Electronic Information Foundation Department of the former General Armament Department. In February 2016, he was again appointed as the China Manned Space Engineering Office.director.

During the flight of Shenzhou-7 in 2008, Wang Zhaoyao attended the press conference of the State Council Information Office as a spokesperson.In November 2011, he attended the press conference again to introduce the rendezvous and docking of Tiangong-1 and Shenzhou-8.In April 2017, when he introduced the development of China's manned space station at the press conference, he said that after several modules of the space station—the main core module and the experimental module are developed, the space station can be assembled and built on orbit.

In addition, Zhang Yulin has stepped down as the deputy director of the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission.According to the official website of Northwestern Polytechnical University, on October 23, the 5th Manned Spaceflight (International) Academic Conference opened at NPU. The conference invited Zhang Yulin, former deputy director of the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission, to give keynote reports.

The 60-year-old Zhang Yulin (born in January 1958) is a scholar-type general from Qianyang, Shaanxi.According to media reports, he was admitted to the National University of Defense Technology majoring in liquid rocket engines in 1978, and received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in engineering; he received a doctorate degree in engineering from Zhejiang University in 1988, and then conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Zhang Yulin has successively served as the director of the Department of Aerospace Technology of the National University of Defense Technology, the dean of the Institute of Equipment Command Technology, and the director of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. In 2008, he was appointed as the president of the National University of Defense Technology.Deputy Minister of Equipment Department.After the start of a new round of military reform at the end of 2015, Zhang Yulin was transferred to the position of Deputy Director of the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission.■