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    Oct 21, 2021 3 minutes

    RADAR EXPERT HONORED WITH ‘ROLE MODEL OF THE TIMES’

    Liu Yongtan, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was given the honorary title of Role Model of the Times on September 29 in recognition of his contributions to the development of radar technology used at sea.

    Liu, born in Jiangsu Province in 1936, is on the cutting edge of global development in radar technology.

    In 1997, Liu’s team officially started engineering the new radar system. After thousands of tests and improvements, Liu’s team completed China’s first new radar system in the fall of 2011. The radar

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