Zheng Zhemin (2 October 1924 – 25 August 2021), also romanized as Cheng Che-Min, was a Chinese explosives engineer and physicist specializing in explosive mechanics.

Zheng is a native of Yin County (now Yinzhou District) of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and was born in Jinan of Shandong Province.

He obtained a BS from Tsinghua University in 1947, and a MS and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1952.

[2] In 1955, Zheng returned to China and later served as Director of the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), President of the Chinese Mechanical Society, and Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (中国力学学报).

[3] He died from an illness in Beijing, on 25 August 2021, aged 96.