The profile of one of China’s top nuclear weapons scientists has been scrubbed from the website of the nation’s engineering brains trust.
Zhao Xiangeng, 72, was a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), the nation’s highest academic body for engineering science and technology, but his profile page has disappeared from the CAE’s site.
It is not known when the page was removed, but Chinese media reports noted the change on Saturday.
Similar online references to other CAE academicians, radar specialist Wu Manqing, 60, and missile designer Wei Yiyin, 63, have been removed, according to the reports.
No explanations have been given for the changes.