Jiang Mianheng

Jiang Mianheng (; born 8 April 1951) is a Chinese scholar, entrepreneur, and political figure. He has served as vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of ShanghaiTech University. His father was Jiang Zemin, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 1989 to 2002.

Biography

Jiang also served as one of the head researchers for the Chinese space program. In 2007, he failed to win nomination as a delegate to the 17th Party Congress.

He served as one of the vice presidents in the Chinese Academy of Sciences until November 2011. Then he became president of the academy's Shanghai branch until 2015. In 2014 he was appointed president of the newly established ShanghaiTech University.

Jiang is a co-founder of the Shanghai-based Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, which gained some coverage in the American press for their employment of Bush family member Neil Bush as a general consultant.