Huang Weilu

Huang Weilu (; 18 December 1916 – 23 November 2011) was a Chinese aerospace and electrical engineer who was a specialist in the control systems of missiles and rockets. The chief designer of JL-1, China's first submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), he was awarded the Two Bombs, One Satellite Meritorious Medal in 1999 and the Highest Achievement Award of China's aerospace industry in 2006. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the International Academy of Astronautics.

Early life and education Huang was born on 18 December 1916 in Wuhu, Anhui, Republic of China. After graduating from the Department of Electrical Engineering of National Central University in 1940, he went to work in the United Kingdom in 1943.

Career Huang returned to China in 1947 and worked as a research scientist in Shanghai. He focused on solving technical issues of control systems for liquid-fuelled intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), then being developed in China with the assistance of the Soviet Union. and Huang was appointed director of Institute 12 under the ministry, in charge of developing the control systems for the Dongfeng missiles.

In 1999, Huang was awarded the Two Bombs, One Satellite Meritorious Medal.