Liu Guozhi, former top PLA scientist and nuclear test commander, delisted from CAS website

2026-03-19 - 13:02

A former top-ranking scientist in the Chinese military and one-time nuclear test site commander, Liu Guozhi, has been removed from the website of the country’s top national research institute. In 2016, Liu was named head of the Science and Technology Committee of the Central Military Commission – China’s top military decision-making and command body – a position he is believed to have held until the early 2020s. Liu, 65, was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. Some Chinese...