Ye Peida
Ye Peida | |
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President of the Beijing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications | |
In office 1980s | |
Personal details | |
Born | Xinchang, Telecommunications engineer , academic | 18 October 1915
Ye Peida (
Early life and education
Ye was born on 18 October 1915
In 1940, Ye worked as a technician at the Central Broadcasting Station in Chongqing, China's wartime capital. Under the constant threat of Japanese bombing raids, he mostly worked in underground bomb shelters.[3]
In 1945, Ye passed the examination for a government scholarship for studying in the United States with the highest score.[3] He spent the following year studying at the graduate school of Columbia University, and interned at NBC and Nortel.[2]
Career
After returning to China in 1947, Ye worked as an engineer at the Central Broadcasting Station, which had moved back to Nanjing after the end of World War II, and also taught as an associated professor at the University of Nanking.[2]
When the
When the Beijing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications (BIPT) was established in 1955, Ye became a founding professor and Chair of the Department of Radio.[1] After the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, he was banished to a May Seventh Cadre School to perform manual labour. He was not fully rehabilitated until after 1978.[3]
In the 1980s, Ye served as President of BIPT.[3] In April 1985, he published an article in the official journal Red Flag advocating the modernization of China's telecommunications industry.[3] In 1988, Ye and fellow academician Zhang Xu published a report that advised the breakup of the monopoly that the Ministry of Posts and Communications held in China's telecommunications industry. It was highly controversial at the time and many thought it would threaten Ye's career, as the BIPT was directly controlled by the ministry.[3] However, the Chinese government adopted their proposal and created shareholding companies to operate the country's telecommunications networks.[3]
With the support of Wang Daheng, Ma Dayou and other academicians, Ye successfully lobbied the national government to include telecommunications in the 863 Program, which funded the development of China's high-tech industries.[3] Ye served as a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) from 1965 until 1993.[2]
Ye died on 16 January 2011 in Beijing, at the age of 95.[1]
Scientific contributions
Ye oversaw the design and installation of China's first 100-kilowatt
Ye was a pioneering educator of telecommunications in China. Over a career spanning more than 60 years, he taught more than 5,000 students and advised over 70 doctoral and master's students. Two of his books were widely used as textbooks in Chinese universities.[3]
Honours and recognition
In 1980, Ye was elected an academician of the
Ye received numerous national and ministerial prizes for his research, as well as the
References
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Fu Xiaoyue 付小悦 (2006-09-24). "叶培大:与光同行". Guangming Daily. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- ^ a b "Biography of Ye Peida". China Vitae. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ a b c d "Ye Peida". Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation. Retrieved 2019-06-11.