Ling Yongshun


Ling Yongshun was a Chinese academic specializing in electronic countermeasures technology, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography

Ling was born in Dingyuan County, Anhui, on 2 April 1937. He secondary studied at Jiashan High School. In 1956, he enrolled at Beijing Normal University, where he majored in physics.
After university in 1960, Ling was despatched as a trainee teaching assistant to Harbin Military Engineering Institute and subsequently a physics teacher at Xi'an Armoured Reconnaissance Engineering College the next year. In December 1969, he was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to do farm works, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in April 1970. He was reinstated in June 1972, when he was appointed an official of the Xi'an Armoured Reconnaissance Engineering College. In June 1976, he became an official at the Anhui Electric Power Design Institute, and served until May 1980, when he was recruited as a professor at the PLA Electronic Engineering Institute.

Personal life and death

Ling had two daughters. On 2 July 2023, Ling died in Beijing, at the age of 86.

Honours and awards