Jiang Mianheng

Jiang Mianheng (born 8 April 1951) is a Chinese academic administrator, businessman, and politician. He has served as Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the first President of ShanghaiTech University. He is the eldest son of Jiang Zemin, former President of the People's Republic of China.

Biography
Jiang is one of the co-founders of the Shanghai-based Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, which gained some coverage in the US press for their employment of Bush family member Neil Bush as a general consultant. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University with a dissertation titled Point contact tunneling study of the high transition temperature superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 in 1991, where his father went for a visit in 1997. 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 up 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 has headed a number of national research programs in alternative energy and other technologies: "coal liquefaction, electric cars, mobile phone networks, particle accelerators, spaceships, lunar satellites and liquid fluoride thorium reactor."