Sun Jiadong, 1929 was born in wafangdian city, Liaoning Province in April, and he is an academician of China Academy of Sciences and the chief designer of the lunar exploration project. 1 1948 2 was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology to study Russian. 195 1 year, Sun Jiadong and 29 other soldiers were sent to zhukovsky Institute of Technology in the Soviet Union to study aircraft engines. 1958 graduated and won the all-Soviet Stalin gold medal. After returning to China, he was assigned to a branch of the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense to work in the second missile project. 1960 as the overall chief designer of type 2. 65438-0967, technical director of China's first artificial earth satellite. 3 1989, Sun Jiadong is the head of the China rocket negotiation delegation to enter the international market. 1996 was elected as an academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences. 1999 was awarded the meritorious medal of two bombs and one star. In 2000, 42065438+65438 101won the highest national science and technology award in 2009 at the national science and technology awards conference.