10 Facts About Xu Shunshou

Xu Shunshou was a Chinese aircraft designer and a founder of the aircraft manufacturing industry in the People's Republic of China.

Xu Shunshou was the founding director of the PRC's first aircraft design organization, where he oversaw the development of the Shenyang JJ-1, the first jet aircraft designed in China.

Xu Shunshou trained many of the country's top aircraft designers and participated in the design of the Nanchang CJ-6 trainer, the Nanchang Q-5 jet attack aircraft, and the Xian H-6 bomber.

Xu Shunshou was severely persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and died at the age of 50.

Xu Shunshou was born on 21 August 1917 in Shanghai, Republic of China, the youngest child of Xu Yibing, an educator and a member of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary group Tongmenghui.

Xu Shunshou designed an air conditioning system for the Ilyushin Il-28 bomber and its Chinese version, the Harbin H-5, but mainly focused on training engineers and translating and writing technical literature.

Xu Shunshou was subject to almost a year of struggle sessions, although he still had time to read and translate technical documents.

Xu Shunshou's brother, Xu Chi, was a famous writer known for his popular biographies of Chen Jingrun and Li Siguang.

Xu Shunshou was a writer and translator known for her Chinese translation of Aylmer Maude's The Life of Tolstoy.

Xu Shunshou worked in a brick factory for eight years, and entered college after the Cultural Revolution and became an aerospace engineer.