Xu Mi

Xu was born in 1937 before the Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out. When Xu was just three months old, his father Xu Kan () named him "Mi" (), hoping that he would have both money and rice. ==Biography==

Xu was born into an intellectual family in Jiangdu County (now Yangzhou), Jiangsu, on 7 April 1937. After graduating from the Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University in 1961, he became a technician in Beijing Atomic Energy Institute and Beijing No. 194 Institute. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in July 1980. In August 1987, he became deputy director, researcher and technical director of Fast Reactor of China Institute of Atomic Energy, and served until 1996. ==Honours and awards==

• December 2011 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) ==References==