AWARDEE OF TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES PRIZE

SHEN WENSUN

Shen Wensun, an expert of ship design, was born in Haiyan County, Zhejiang Province, in May 1930, and graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1953. From 1982 to 1991, he acted as deputy director of ship design & research institute of Dalian Shipyard, being entitled professor-level senior engineer. From 1991 to 2003, he became the deputy technical director and chief designer of Dalian New Shipyard. In 1997, he was elected the academician of China Engineering Academy.
Shen Wensun had led the design and construction of large vessels, more than 20 types, ranging from 27 000dwt to 300 000dwt, particularly, he was marvelously successful in designing 98 000dwt and 110 000dwt product carriers, 52 000dwt multi-purpose container vessel, 150 000dwt bulk carrier and 150 000dwt oil tankers. These ships were constructed in 1990s, and considered to be of high technical complexity, high automation and advanced world level, achieving a foreign exchange circa 1 500 million US dollar, which played a decisive role enabling China large-sized vessels to edge into the international market.
Since mid of 1990s, he successively developed and designed VLCC, large mineral ship, large shuttle tanker and large container vessel, amongst, large oil tankers and container vessels were successful in design and construction, escalating China shipbuilding to another new stage.
Combining his affluent experience in the past 50 years, and the information acquired from routine work, Shen Wensun had subsequently wrote a number of essay in perspective of ship design, which were published later on both in domestic and overseas documents.
Attributing to his achievement, Shen Wensun had been awarded, since 1980s, one first prize and three second prizes of State Technical Progress, and three first prizes for the technical progress being issued by China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC).