Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2008, Professor Peijun Shi is a distinguished Chinese geographer whose research and professional work have focused on environmental evolution, natural disaster research, and Earth surface processes. Born in March 1959 in Jingbian, Shaanxi Province, he received his B.S. in Geography from Inner Mongolia Normal University in 1982, his M.S. from the Lanzhou Desert Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1984, and his Ph.D. from Beijing Normal University in 1988. From 1995 to 1997, he conducted postdoctoral research in natural resources and environmental management at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He was selected for the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2004. At Beijing Normal University, he held a series of academic and administrative positions, including Vice President (1999–2008), Executive Vice President (2008–2018), Dean of the Graduate School (2006–2018), Director of the Institute of Resources Science (1997–2003), Dean of the College of Resources (2003–2004), and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology (2007–2016). Since 2018, he has served as Deputy Party Secretary and President of Qinghai Normal University.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2008, Professor Qizhi Mao is a distinguished Chinese urban and regional planner whose research and professional work have focused on urban design, urban infrastructure planning, and the application of emerging technologies to urban and rural planning. Born in May 1952, he received his B.Eng. in Architecture from the Department of Civil Engineering at Zhejiang University in 1982, his M.Eng. in Urban Planning from Tsinghua University in 1985, his M.Sc. in Infrastructure Planning from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1989, and his Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Design from Tsinghua University in 1997. He has pursued his academic career at Tsinghua University, where he progressed from Teaching Assistant and Lecturer to Associate Research Fellow and Professor in the School of Architecture in 1999. From 1995, he served as Deputy Director of the Institute of Architectural and Urban Studies and Deputy Director of the Center for Science of Human Settlements, and from December 2004 to January 2013, as Associate Dean of the School of Architecture. He currently serves as Professor in the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University and Director of the Department of Urban Science at the China Science Center of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2008, the Honorable Anthony Neoh, SC, is a distinguished Hong Kong legal scholar and financial regulatory specialist whose professional career has focused on securities law, financial regulation, and capital market governance. Born in Hong Kong in 1946, with ancestral roots in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, he received his LL.B. from the University of London. He began his career in the Hong Kong Civil Service before pursuing legal studies in the United Kingdom and subsequently qualifying as a barrister in private practice. He served as a member of the Council of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and its Listed Companies Committee, and in 1994 was appointed the first Chinese Chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). In 1996, he was elected Chairman of the Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). At the invitation of Premier Zhu Rongji, he served as Chief Advisor to the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) from 1998, contributing to the development and modernisation of China’s capital market regulatory framework. He currently serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and CITIC Limited, Council Member and Treasurer of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Council Member of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and a member of the Advisory Board of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Advisory Committee of the School of Economics, Peking University.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2008, Professor Baoxi Zhuo is a Chinese specialist in engineering geology and remote sensing whose career has focused on the application of aerial and satellite remote sensing to railway route selection, engineering-geological investigation, and geological hazard assessment. Born in February 1934 in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, he graduated from the railway construction programme of Tongji University in 1954. In 1956 he was transferred from the Lanzhou–Xinjiang Railway construction site to the Beijing Aerial Survey Office, where he studied aerial geology under the Soviet expert G. F. Golubenko and began his career in remote-sensing geology. He joined the Specialised Design Institute of the Ministry of Railways in 1957 and subsequently served in a series of technical and managerial positions, including Director of the Railway Aerial Survey and Remote Sensing Centre and Deputy Chief Engineer. The institute later became China Railway Engineering Consultants Group, where he serves as Senior Adviser and Professor of Engineering. Over more than four decades, he directed or participated in engineering-geological remote-sensing investigations for more than 30 railway lines, including the Lanzhou–Xinjiang, Qinghai–Tibet, Chengdu–Kunming, and Nanning–Kunming railways, undertaking field and remote-sensing work across China. He was recognised as a China Engineering Survey Master in 1994, received the State Council Special Allowance in 1992, and was awarded the Zhan Tianyou Railway Science and Technology Achievement Prize in 2003. He has also served as an adviser and Deputy Chairman of the Expert Committee of the China Association of Remote Sensing Applications, Government Adviser of Fujian Province, and Concurrent Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University and Southwest Jiaotong University.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2008, Professor Guanhua Xu is a distinguished Chinese scientist in remote sensing and resource information whose research and professional work have focused on satellite digital image processing, integrated remote sensing survey and mapping, geographic information systems, and science and technology strategy. Born in December 1941 in Shanghai, he graduated from Beijing Institute of Forestry, now Beijing Forestry University, in 1963 and joined the Chinese Academy of Forestry. After teaching at Xi’an Geological Institute from 1971 to 1979, he studied satellite digital image processing at Stockholm University from 1979 to 1981 as one of the early state-sponsored scholars sent overseas after China’s reform and opening up. He subsequently served as Director of the Institute of Resource Information of the Chinese Academy of Forestry, Director of the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2001 to 2007, he served as Minister of Science and Technology, during which he participated in the formulation of the National Medium- and Long-Term Programme for Science and Technology Development (2006–2020). He later chaired the Education, Science, Culture, Health and Sports Committee of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and has served as Chairman of the Expert Advisory Group of the National Basic Research Programme (973 Programme). He is a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, TWAS, and the International Academy of Astronautics, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He currently holds academic appointments at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2008, Professor Zuwen Wang is a distinguished Chinese mechanical engineer whose research and professional work have focused on fluid power transmission and control, pneumatic technology, gas lubrication, and maritime engineering. Born in November 1955, he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fluid power transmission and control from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Doctor of Engineering from Sophia University, Japan, in 1990. After returning to China in 1992, he held a series of academic and administrative positions at Harbin Institute of Technology, including Professor, Dean of the School of Energy Science and Engineering, and Vice President. He subsequently served as President and Deputy Party Secretary of Dalian Maritime University from 2005 to 2014. He was Chairman of the International Association of Maritime Universities from 2008 to 2010, served on the Board of Directors of the World Maritime University and as Vice Chairman of the China Institute of Navigation, and was a deputy to the 11th and 12th National People’s Congress. His professional work has encompassed fluid power research, higher education, science and technology advisory activities, and international cooperation in maritime education.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2008, Professor Chongyin Li is a distinguished Chinese meteorologist whose research has focused on atmospheric circulation, tropical meteorology, and climate dynamics. Born on 15 April 1940 in Daxian, Sichuan Province, he graduated from the Department of Applied Geophysics at the University of Science and Technology of China in 1963. He was elected a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001. From 1984 to 1995, he served as Director of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Circulation and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and from 1985 to 1993 as Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG). He was appointed Research Professor at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, in 1987. In 2005, he was appointed Professor at the College of Meteorology and Oceanography, National University of Defense Technology, and was conferred the rank of Major General in the civilian service.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2008, Professor Jinghe Liang is a distinguished Chinese obstetrician and gynaecologist whose career has focused on gynaecological oncology, minimally invasive surgery, and women’s health. Born on 18 April 1940 in Jilin Province, he entered the Department of Medicine at Norman Bethune University of Medical Science (now the Norman Bethune Health Science Center of Jilin University) in 1959 and graduated in 1964, subsequently joining Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. He received advanced training in gynaecological oncology in Norway in 1985 and Canada in 1986. From 1986 to 1993, he served as Vice President of PUMCH, and from 1993 onward as Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He was elected a Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2011. He currently serves as Honorary President of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Therapy, a Member of the Academic Division of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, and Distinguished Lifetime Professor at Peking Union Medical College. In 2022, he received the Wu Jieping Medical Prize.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2007, Ambassador Zukang Sha is a distinguished Chinese diplomat and scholar of international politics, security, arms control, and international affairs. Born on 24 September 1947 in Yixing, Jiangsu Province, he graduated from Nanjing University in 1970 and joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the same year. From 1971 to 1992, he held diplomatic and professional positions at the Chinese Embassies in the United Kingdom, Sri Lanka, and India, as well as in the Department of International Organizations and Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations. Between 1992 and 2007, he held a series of senior positions, including Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations, Deputy Director-General of the Department of International Organizations and Law, Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Director-General of the Department of Arms Control and Disarmament, and Ambassador and Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva. In July 1993, while serving as Deputy Director-General of the Department of International Organizations and Law, he was appointed as the Chinese Government Representative and Head of the Chinese Inspection Team in connection with the Yinhe Incident. From 2007 to 2012, he served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Economic and Social Affairs, and from 2010 to 2012 as Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). He currently serves as Honorary President of the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association and as a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2007, Professor Jinglian Wu is a distinguished Chinese economist whose research and professional work have focused on theoretical economics, comparative institutional analysis, and China’s economic development and reform. Born in January 1930 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, he graduated from Fudan University in 1954 and subsequently pursued research at the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, becoming a Research Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1983. From 1984, he served as Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Research Fellow at the Development Research Centre of the State Council, where he also held administrative and policy research positions. He subsequently held visiting research and teaching appointments at Yale University, the University of Oxford, Stanford University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His professional service has included membership of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China, the Standing Committee of the 9th and 10th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and its Economic Affairs Committee. He currently serves as Research Fellow at the Development Research Centre of the State Council, Baosteel Distinguished Chair Professor of Economics at China Europe International Business School, and Professor at Peking University and the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is also Honorary President of the International Economic Association and has received honorary doctorates from universities in Hong Kong. His professional career has encompassed economic research, policy advisory work, comparative economics, and higher education.