(CFP)

Fang Binxing, President of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, a leading university in the field of telecommunications, said he would resign from his post at the university's graduation ceremony on June 27. He said the dual workload of academic and management responsibilities has exhausted him.

Born in 1960, Fang is known as the Father of the Chinese National Firewall for his design of the system dubbed the "Great Firewall." He became president of the university in 2007.