Top Chinese scientist developing chips for weapon systems detained by graft-buster
Yu Faxin – whose Shanghai-listed firm Great Microwave Technology supplies chips for military equipment – said to be in detention in Hubei
Yu is also a Qiushi distinguished professor at Zhejiang University’s School of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Hangzhou.
He is an expert in microwave and millimetre-wave radio frequency technology and has overcome technical hurdles in the areas of communication, navigation and radar tech. Yu also works on process technology for semiconductor materials including gallium nitride and gallium arsenide compounds, according to the university.
In a statement released on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Monday, Great Microwave Technology said it had “learned on September 21 from the family of Yu Faxin, the company’s actual controller and chairman, that Yu has been subjected to detention measures by the Supervisory Commission of Huangshi”.
It said while Yu was “temporarily unable to fulfil his responsibilities as the chairman”, the company would operate as normal with “other directors and senior management performing their duties normally”.
The statement did not give further details. The supervisory commission – a local branch of China’s top anti-graft watchdog in Huangshi, Hubei province – has not released a statement on the case.
Yu completed his studies, from undergraduate to PhD, in communication and information systems at the Harbin Institute of Technology. He went on to work at telecoms solutions provider UTStarcom and later joined Zhejiang University in 2006.