BAO Weimin, an expertise in guidance and control, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, was born in 1960 in Harbin, the capital city of Heilongjiang Province, China. Majored in information processing, he graduated from the department of electronics engineering, Northwest Institute of Telecommunication Engineering (now Xidian University) in August 1982. Mr Bao is elected as a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2005. Now he is the dean of the School of Aerospace Science and Technology (SAST) of Xidian University and the director of Science and Technology Committee of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC). He is also the academic leader in the fields of control system and overall design of aerospace vehicle. In past years of his career, Mr Bao pays highly attention to combining the theory with the practice and he has solved serials of technical problems in the process of constructing the modernized national defense. He receives his honor by winning the national science and technology progress award and many other renowned prizes. He is one of the young and middle-aged experts who have great contributions to science, technology and industry for national defense.