Pan Jingfu  is an expert in ship engineering. Though his ancestral home was in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, Pan is a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. He is a member of the Communist Party of China. In 1942, Pan moved to Suzhou with his parents and enrolled in Lequn Middle School (later renamed successively as Lianhe Middle School, the Middle School Affiliated to the Institute of Education, Provincial No. 2 Middle School, Suzhou No. 3 Middle School, etc.) as a junior high student. In 1944, he became a Senior One student at Suzhou No. 1 Middle School. The following year saw his admission to Suzhou High School of Jiangsu Province as a student of Senior Two. After his graduation in 1947, Pan became a student at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tongji University in Shanghai. In 1948, he was admitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering of Zhejiang University and graduated in 1952. He has worked successively as the leader of the Electrical Design Division of the East China Bureau of Electrical Engineering and the Second Design Department of the First Ministry of Machine Building, the deputy section chief and section chief of the First Product Design Office of the Bureau of Shipping, the engineer, senior engineer, researcher-level senior engineer, deputy director and deputy chief engineer of the 701 Research Institute of the Seventh Academy under China State Ship-building Corporation, and the research fellow of the China Ship Research and Design Centre of Ship Building. Pan has long been engaged in the research and overall design of ships. As the chief designer, he took charge of the designs of two generations of Type-IV guided missile destroyers in China. Each type featured technological breakthroughs, which marked advances in the capability and technical execution of China’s shipbuilding industry. With the help of views of system engineering, the designs of these new missile destroyers updated the traditional design concept and paid close attention to the optimization of the comprehensive tactical performance concerning the whole ship. They also adopted such new technologies as automation of operational commanding, electronic countermeasure, combined diesel and fuel configuration, which all achieved great success. Pan and his team attained fruitful results in their expansion and innovation in new technological fields including the ship-borne combat system and electromagnetic compatibility, which made it possible to carry out early warning, centralized command and comprehensive use of soft-kill and hard-kill weapons. As a result, the overall ship performance reached that of its overseas counterpart in the early 1990s. Pan’s work made a significant contribution to the development of military equipment for the PLA Navy. The design of Type-IV won the special prize of the State Science and Technology Progress Award in 1999. Pan’s other honors include two National Science Conference Awards and two second prizes of the State Science and Technology Progress Award, and the “Certificate of Honor for Outstanding Contribution” issued by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. Moreover, Pan integrated actual practices into his research work and published many academic papers, namely “Reflections in the Research and Development of Chinese Destroyers,” “Experiences and Reflections on the Research and Development of New Destroyers,” “Research and Development of Ship-borne Combat Systems,” “Development and Prospects of Surface Ships,” “Development and Prospects of Foreign Aircraft Carriers,” “Development of the Technology of Automation, Intelligentization and Networking for Surface Ships,” and “Research on the Development and Countermeasures of Weapons and Equipment in the 21st Century,” etc. In 1995, Pan was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.