Career
Born in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, Weng graduated from the ship building department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1952. He obtained a Soviet doctor"s degree (Candidate of Sciences) at the institute of ship building in Leningrad of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in 1962. He served as the chairman of Shanghai Science and Technology Association.
Weng is a professor of SJTU and served as president of the University.
He is one of the main founders of China"s new generation of thermo-turbines.