Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2011, Professor Jing’an Zhang is a Chinese scholar of science and technology policy and strategy whose professional work has focused on science policy and law, institutional reform, S&T talent, intellectual property, venture capital, high-tech industrialisation, and innovation systems. Born in October 1949 in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, he received his doctorate in political science from Beijing Normal University. His early career included service in the Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps, followed by positions at Renmin University of China, the Beijing Municipal Youth League Committee, and the State Economic Commission. In 1982 he joined the State Science and Technology Commission, where he held a succession of positions in policy, system reform, talent development, high-tech industry, biotechnology, science and technology poverty alleviation, and innovation funding. He later served as Director-General of the Department of Policy, Regulations and System Reform, Secretary-General and a Member of the Party Group of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and President of Science and Technology Daily at vice-ministerial level. He was also a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He currently serves as Chairman of the China Research Society for Science and Technology System Reform, Chairman of the Reform Committee for High-Tech Industrial Development Zones, Executive Vice Chairman of the IEAS China Science Center, and Honorary President of the China International Association for Science and Technology Cooperation.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2011, Professor Daning Zhang is a distinguished Chinese physician and researcher in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) whose research and professional work have focused on TCM nephrology, the theory and clinical treatment of kidney diseases, and the modernisation of traditional medicine. Born in September 1944 in Tianjin, he graduated from Tianjin College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, now Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, in 1966. He subsequently held clinical, research, and teaching positions in Tianjin before joining his alma mater in 1978, where he combined clinical practice with medical education and research. He also served as Vice President of Tianjin Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Professor Zhang has held professional and public-service positions in the China Association of Chinese Medicine and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and has served as a Counsellor of the Central Research Institute of Culture and History of the State Council since 2013. He is currently Honorary President and Chief Expert of the Tianjin Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Director of its Tianjin Institute of TCM Nephrology, and Professor and Chief Physician. He was elected to the Academic Divisions of the Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in 2020 and was named a National Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2014. He has received the State Council Special Allowance and has served as a central healthcare physician since the 1990s. In 1998, asteroid 8311 was named “Zhang Daning Star” in his honour.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2011, Professor Joseph J. Y. Sung is a distinguished Hong Kong gastroenterologist whose research and professional work have focused on gastrointestinal diseases, Helicobacter pylori infection, gastrointestinal bleeding, and digestive-system cancers. Born on 22 October 1959 in Hong Kong, with ancestral roots in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, he received his M.B.B.S. from the University of Hong Kong in 1983, joined Prince of Wales Hospital, the teaching hospital of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), in 1985, and subsequently received his Ph.D. in Life Sciences from the University of Calgary, Canada, in 1992 and his M.D. from CUHK in 1997. He was appointed Chair Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics at CUHK in 1998 and Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics in 1999. From 2010 to 2017, he served as Vice-Chancellor and President of CUHK. He was elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2011 and became a Founding Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences in 2015. In 2021, he joined Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as Senior Vice President (Health and Life Sciences) and Dean of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, and was appointed Distinguished University Professor, the university’s highest faculty rank. In 2026, he was elected a Member of the Singapore National Academy of Sciences. He also serves as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Eurasian Academy of Sciences, and as a Founding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2011, Professor Yaping Shao is a distinguished Chinese-German atmospheric physicist and aeolian scientist whose research and professional work have focused on wind-blown sand and dust processes, dust-storm modelling, atmospheric dynamics, and human–Earth system interactions. Born in 1960, he has served as Professor at the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Germany, since 2007. He is a founding member of the International Society for Aeolian Research and was involved in the establishment of its journal, Aeolian Research. He also serves on the jury for the Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award, which he received in 2025.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2011, Professor Hanying Mao is a distinguished Chinese human and economic geographer whose research and professional work have focused on urban and regional planning, regional sustainable development, and world geography. Born in 1938, he graduated from the Department of Geography, Nanjing University, with a specialisation in Economic Geography in 1961 and joined the Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in the same year. From 1986 to 1987, he conducted senior visiting scholar research at the Department of Geography, Leningrad University (now Saint Petersburg University), USSR. He was approved as a Doctoral Supervisor by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee in 1992. He currently serves as Senior Research Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in Economic Geography at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, and as Leader of the Expert Group of the Regional and Urban Planning and Design Research Center at the same institute. He also serves as Deputy Secretary-General of the China Science Center of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2011, Professor Yixin Zeng is a distinguished Chinese oncologist whose research and professional work have focused on the molecular pathogenesis of malignant tumours, the genetics of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and cancer biotherapy. Born in October 1962 in Loudi, Hunan Province, he received his M.D. from Hengyang Medical College, now the University of South China, in 1985 and his Doctor of Medicine degree from Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences in 1990. He subsequently undertook postdoctoral and visiting research at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology and the Institute of Medical Science of the University of Tokyo, followed by research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of the University of Pennsylvania. Returning to China in 1997, he held a series of academic and administrative positions at Sun Yat-sen University, including Director of its Cancer Centre and Cancer Research Institute and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China. He later served as Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, President of Peking Union Medical College, and President of Beijing Hospital. Since 2017, he has served in senior positions in China’s national health administration. Elected a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005 and a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2008, he has also held leadership roles in the China Anti-Cancer Association and the International Association for Research on Epstein–Barr Virus and Associated Diseases. His honours include the Karolinska Institutet Grand Silver Medal, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress, and the Guangdong Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Award.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2011, Professor Xia Li is a distinguished Chinese remote sensing and geographic information scientist whose research has focused on geospatial artificial intelligence, land-use change modelling, and urban remote sensing. Born in 1962, he received his B.S. from the Department of Geography, Peking University, in 1983, his M.S. from the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Peking University, in 1986, and his Ph.D. from the Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management, the University of Hong Kong, in 1996. He was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom, in 2020. From 1986 to 2003, he pursued his research career at the Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, progressing from trainee researcher to research professor and serving as Deputy Director of the Remote Sensing Division. From 2000 to 2003, he also served as Senior Research Assistant at the University of Hong Kong. In 2003, he joined Sun Yat-sen University as Distinguished Professor and subsequently served as Yat-sen Chair Professor from 2010 to 2017. He was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2005. Since September 2017, he has served as Professor at the School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2011, Professor Wenhui Liu is a distinguished Chinese petroleum geologist and geochemist whose research has focused on natural gas geology, hydrocarbon generation and evolution, and noble gas isotope geochemistry. Born in January 1957, he currently serves as Distinguished Professor at Northwest University. He previously served as a Senior Expert at Sinopec and Director of the Wuxi Research Institute of Petroleum Geology. Professor Liu has served as Chief Scientist for two consecutive National 973 Programme projects and has received the National Technology Invention Award, two National Science and Technology Progress Awards, and four Chinese Academy of Sciences Awards, as well as the title of National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2011, Professor Yihu Li is a distinguished Chinese scholar of international relations whose research and professional work have focused on Taiwan studies, cross-strait relations, international strategy, and international politics. Born in 1961 in Beijing, with ancestral roots in Suning, Hebei Province, he enrolled in the Department of International Politics at Peking University in 1979, graduating among the top thirty students in Beijing. He received his Ph.D. in Law and has spent his academic career at Peking University, where he currently serves as Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and Director of the Institute of International Relations. He concurrently serves as Director of the Taiwan Research Institute at Peking University.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2011, Professor Yang Li is a distinguished Chinese economist whose research and professional work have focused on fiscal and monetary policy, financial development, macroeconomic regulation, and financial system reform. Born in September 1951 in Huainan, Anhui Province, he received his B.A. in Economics from Anhui University in 1981, his M.A. in Economics from Fudan University in 1984, and his Ph.D. in Economics from Renmin University of China in 1989. He subsequently joined the Institute of Finance and Trade Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), where he was promoted to Research Professor by special appointment in 1995. In 1997, he was selected as a national-level candidate of the National Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talent Project, and from 1998 to 1999 he conducted visiting scholar research at Columbia University, USA. He was named a National Outstanding Professional and Technical Talent in 2002. His academic and institutional appointments included Director of the Institute of Finance at CASS in 2003, election as a Member of the CASS Academic Division in 2006, concurrent service as Director of the Economics Division, and appointment as Vice President of CASS in 2009. In 2015, he was appointed Chairman of the National Institution for Finance and Development (NIFD). He was named a First-Level Research Professor of CASS in 2021. Professor Li currently serves as Chairman of NIFD and President of Wenzhou Business College.