Wu Xiangming

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Wu Xiangming

Wu Xiangming (born September 15, 1938 in Suzhou ) is director of the National Maglev Transportation Engineering Research and Development Center and responsible for the world's first commercial implementation of the Transrapid technology.

He received his engineering training at the renowned Tongji University in Shanghai, which is linked to the Technical University of Dresden through various cooperations. He completed his civil engineering studies there in 1959.

Wu's work as an engineer and responsible manager was associated with the planning and implementation of spectacular large-scale projects, such as the Bao Steel plant - a typical industrial building. “Commander Wu”, as his employees call him, has left lasting traces above all in Shanghai: Initially in his role as Deputy Director of the Planning Commission and Director of the Shanghai City Building Committee and Deputy Chief Secretary of the Shanghai City Government, among other things Realized the traffic-technical and flood-proof redesign of the Bund, the famous old town promenade on the Huangpu River, the reconstruction of the People's Square and in its immediate vicinity the construction of a four-level crossing structure for the main thoroughfare of Shanghai and the north-south elevated road. Other particularly impressive signs of his work are the elegant cable-stayed bridges Nanpu and Yangpu over the Huangpu River .

Internationally he made a name for himself in 1995 as chief engineer for the new construction of the Shanghai Pudong International Airport . In order to connect it to Shanghai, he relied on the technology that had previously only been tested on the Emsland Transrapid test facility (TVE). On December 31, 2003, the first commercially used Transrapid system went into operation as planned.

On September 30, 2005 , the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Dresden awarded Wu an honorary doctorate for his services to the implementation of the globally unique Transrapid technology and for his life's work as a civil engineer . He is the first Chinese honorary doctorate from TU Dresden.

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Wu is the family name here, Xiangming is the first name.