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　　On October 31, 2009, Chinese famous scientist Qian Xuesen, died in Beijing when he was 98 years old．He is famous as the country's“father of space technology”and“king of rocketry”．

　　Qian was born in 1911 in Hangzhou．He left for the United States and graduated school in 1936．He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later at the California Institute of Technology．Qian began his career in the US and was regarded as one of the brightest minds in the new field of aeronautics(航空学)before returning to China in 1955．

　　After he returned to school, Qian set up the first missile(导弹)and rocket research institute(学院)of China．The institute later helped start Chinese space program．He worked on its first satellite．

　　He retired(退休)in the year before Chinese manned space program was launched in 1992．But his research formed the basis for the Long March CZ-2F rocket that carried astronaut Yang Liwei into orbit in 2003．

　　In August, 2009, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Qian and spoke highly of him for putting his heart into Chinese defense(防御)technologies．Qian told him,“I'm trying to live to be 100 years old．”