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

2026.03.19 13:20 Liu Guozhi, military scientist and former nuclear test commander, is no longer on the Chinese Academy of Sciences official website. Photo: handout 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 bloggers on Thursday noted that his profile was no longer listed on the site. Liu is a high-power microwave weapon expert, according to profiles on the Tsinghua University alumni association. He graduated from Tsinghua’s engineering physics department in 1983, and received his master’s and doctoral degrees from there in 1986 and 1992. Between 1986 and 2002, he worked at the Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, an institute in Xian, Shaanxi province, where he rose through the ranks to become director. The multidisciplinary applied physics research institute was established in 1963 and has a focus on nuclear science and technology. Its main research directions include radiation detection, radiation effects, pulsed power technology, electromagnetic field and electromagnetic wave technology, laser technology and explosion shock dynamics. In 2010, when his profile was posted by Tsinghua, Liu was the commander and a researcher at China’s only nuclear testing site at Lop Nur in Xinjiang. “He has long been engaged in research and system development of pulsed power and high-power microwave technology,” it said. “His research has resulted in notable achievements, including a practical GW high-power microwave source and system.” His removal from the top research body comes as Beijing steps up its long-running campaign against

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