1929 was admitted to the railway engineering department of Shanghai Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Ministry of Railways, 1934 graduated from national chiao tung university (now Shanghai Jiaotong University and Xi Jiaotong University). In June, he was admitted to the 7th Geng Prize in Tsinghua University to study in the United States. /kloc-0 entered the department of aeronautics of MIT in September, 1935;/kloc-0 obtained a master's degree in aeronautics engineering from MIT in September, 1936, and then transferred to the department of aeronautics of California Institute of Technology.

At the beginning of 1956, Qian Xuesen put forward the Opinions on Establishing China's National Defense Aviation Industry to the Central Committee and the State Council. At the same time, Qian Xuesen established the first rocket and missile research institute in China, the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense, and served as the first president. He presided over the completion of the plan of "establishing jet and rocket technology" and participated in the development of short-range missiles, medium-and short-range missiles and China's first artificial earth satellite.