According to the Shanghai Jiaotong University Alumni Association Office: On June 27, 2020, the 14th Retired Cadre Retirement Center of the Haidian District, Beijing Garrison District, the deputy retired cadre of the Military Command, the former deputy director of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission, and the 1952 session of the Chemical Engineering Department of Jiaotong University Alumni Huai Guomo died of illness at the age of 88.
Official information shows that Huai Guomo was born in Jiaxing, Zhejiang in 1932, graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering of Jiaotong University in 1952, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1953. He used to be the director of the Comprehensive Planning Department of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission, the deputy director of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission, a member of the Ninth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a deputy chairman of the China Soft Science Research Association. He was awarded the rank of major general in September 1988 and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in July 1993.
The official website of Shanghai Jiaotong University stated that as one of the founders and practitioners of my country's national defense science and technology industry, Huai Guomo witnessed and participated in various historical stages of my country's national defense science and technology industry from the initial period when it was founded to the vigorous development of reform and opening up. In 1958, Huai Guomo was transferred to the Second Ministry of Machinery Industry, and he then formed an indissoluble bond with the military industry.
From 1958 to 1969, China's national defense industry entered an important period of vigorous development. During this period, Huai Guomo was mainly engaged in the research of atomic energy, and was responsible for understanding and studying the implementation of the "two-year plan" and existing problems in order to promote the realization of China's national defense industry. The imitation and independent production of conventional weapons have made an indelible contribution.
In 1978, Huai Guomo served as the deputy director of the Production Bureau of the National Defense Industry Office, and as the main author, drafted the "Report on Mobilizing the Mass to Rectify Product Quality". The report aims to expose the problems of enterprise management and production quality, focusing on national defense. Thoughts on measures that need to be taken in quality rectification by various industrial departments.
In 1997, Huai Guomo formally withdrew from his leadership position and ended his military career for more than 40 years, but his profound military situation was difficult to give up for a while. He was always in the defense science and technology industry for more than sixty years.
Surging News Reporter Jiang Ziwen