Between Oct. 1 and Oct. 8 this year, at least two academicians and eight renowned professors died of illness in China, nine of whom were members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
These included Pan Jingfu, an academician of the Academy of Engineering and the CCP’s “father of missile destroyers”; Zheng Guangmei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a professor at Beijing Normal University; Wei Dingren, a constitutional scholar at Peking University; Wang Yu, a professor at the school of philosophy at the People’s University of China; and Zhou Zhongying, former dean of the Nanjing College of traditional Chinese medicine, among others.
