Li Shihe

Li Shihe (1941-), a native of Chongqing, is the main promoter of TD-SCDMA technology. He once served as vice president and chief scientist of Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd. In his early years, he worked at the Telecommunications Science and Technology Research Institute of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Later, he was labeled as a counterrevolutionary during the Cultural Revolution and spent eight years in Xi'an through labor reform. In 1978, he was sent abroad by the government to study at the University of Montreal in Canada and received his doctorate after four years. Then return to China. He successively served as chief engineer and director of the Fourth Research Institute of the Post and Telecommunications Research Institute of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Vice President and Deputy Chief Engineer of the Institute of Posts and Telecommunications Science and Technology. After 1993, Chen Wei, a project manager who worked with Motorola's Semiconductor Department, and Xu Guanghan, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, proposed the initial concept of TD-SCDMA. After 1995, he became the chairman of YCDMA Company and began the research, development and promotion of TD-SCDMA. Li Shihe has been nominated as an academician of the Academy of Engineering many times.