Background
Yu Zhengsheng, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, graduated from Harbin's Military Engineering Institute specializing in the design of automated missiles. He is the son of Yu Qiwei, better known by the name Huang Jing, a Communist politician, and Fan Jin, a frontline journalist. In December 1968 he was sent to work in Zhangjiakou, Hebei until the mid-1980s his career concentration was in electronic engineering.