Ren Xinmin

Ren Xinmin was born on 5 December 1915, in Ningguo, Anhui Province. ==Career==

After the Second World War, Ren read a book authored by Qian that roused his interest in rocket science. When he returned to China in 1949, he arrived in Nanjing and was offered a research fellowship until 1952, when he left for Harbin. In those three years, Ren and his colleagues attempted to launch a tiny rocket, though experimentation was never completed. Ren served as Vice Minister of the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building from 1975 until 1982, when he was moved to the Ministry of Aerospace Industry. There, the 331 Project, to build and launch a communication satellite, was successfully implemented. Ren was in charge of its five sections as chief engineer and was nicknamed the "Chief Chief Engineer (总总师)". ==Personal life==

Ren married Yu Shuangqin (), the daughter of a Nationalist government official, in 1944. Ren died on 12 February 2017, in Beijing, aged 101 (102 in East Asian age reckoning). His wife and children survived him. ==References==