Academician Zhao Xu Speaks Glowingly of the Phylogeny of Pilotless Aircraft

On the afternoon of October 23, the Lecture Hall of the library was full of people, where Prof. Zhao Xu, Senior Engineer and General Engineer of AFTB, Academician of China Engineering Academy made an excellent report for the teachers and students of XTU. Xiao Guo’an, Secretary of Party Committee of XTU, attended this lecture and issued letter of appointment of adjunct professor for Prof. Zhao Xu. The lecture was presided over by Vice President Zhou Yichun.

Academician Zhao Xu was honored as “Father of Pilotless Aircraft”. In his lecture, firstly by combining complicated and changeable international background, he profoundly analyzed the immanent cause of the development of pilotless aircraft, described the development track of pilotless aircraft at different period in detail with the line of time and events. Then he introduced the development method and development feature of pilotless aircraft in our country, elaborating its extensive application and unique significance in the field of national defense, science and technology, and exploration. The content of this lecture was very unique and lively, which aroused the students’ interests. The interactivity was going on with lots of questions asked by the students and answered by Prof. Zhao.

After this lecture, Academician Zhao Xu paid resects to Mao Zedong's Bronze Statue, visited History Exhibition of XTU, made a field survey of Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Materials and Application Technology of Ministry of Education and listened to the report of the working staff of the lab.

Journalist Zhang Ziqing from Journal of Xiangtan University
Source: Propaganda Department of Party Committee of XTU
Oct. 27, 2009