Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2005, Professor Keli Tang is a distinguished Chinese soil scientist whose research and professional work have focused on soil erosion, soil and water conservation, and ecological management of the Loess Plateau. Born on 5 August 1932 in Shanghai, with ancestral roots in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, she graduated from the Department of Soil and Agricultural Chemistry at Shandong Agricultural College in 1954 and earned her Candidate of Sciences degree, equivalent to a Ph.D., in Soil Erosion from the Institute of Soil Science of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1962. She has pursued her academic career at the Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, jointly administered by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Water Resources, where she currently serves as Research Professor. From 1991 to 1995, she served as the inaugural Director of the State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2005, Professor Dayi Hu is a distinguished Chinese cardiologist and medical educator whose career has contributed to the development of interventional cardiology, cardiac electrophysiology, and cardiovascular disease prevention in China. Born in July 1946 in Kaifeng, Henan Province, with ancestral roots in Neihuang, he received his M.D. from Beijing Medical College, now Peking University Health Science Center, in 1970. He subsequently developed his clinical career at the First Affiliated Hospital of Beijing Medical College, progressing from Resident Physician to Chief Physician. From 1985 to 1987, he undertook advanced training in cardiac electrophysiology and interventional cardiology at the State University of New York and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He later served as Associate Professor and Professor at the First Affiliated Hospital of Beijing Medical University and, from 1993 to 2000, as Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University. In 1999, he was appointed Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases and Director of the Department of Cardiology at Peking University People’s Hospital, where he established the Interventional Center and the Department of Cardiology. He concurrently served as Director of the Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Center at Beijing Tongren Hospital and Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases at Capital Medical University. In 2003, he was appointed Dean of the School of Medicine at Tongji University, and in 2006 became Director of the Xiamen Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2004, Professor Yanhua Liu is a distinguished Chinese geographer and science policy scholar whose research and professional work have focused on natural resources, environmental management, and international scientific cooperation. Born on 18 April 1950 in Beijing, with ancestral roots in Handan, Hebei Province, he received his B.S. from Beijing Normal University in 1976, his M.S. in Physical Geography from the Graduate School of the University of Science and Technology of China in 1981, and his Ph.D. in Physical Geography from the Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in 1991. He began his professional career at the Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences in 1977 and joined the Institute of Geography, CAS, in 1981, where he subsequently served as Research Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and Director from 1995 to 1997. His subsequent career included senior positions in national science and technology administration, including Deputy Director-General of the Department of Science and Technology for Social Development of the State Science and Technology Commission, Director-General of the Department of Rural and Social Development of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), and Vice Minister of Science and Technology and Member of the Party Group from November 2001 to December 2009. In November 2009, he was appointed Counselor of the State Council. He has also served as Chairman of the National Expert Committee on Climate Change, Executive Vice Chairman of the Innovation Method Research Society, and Editor-in-Chief of China Population, Resources and Environment. A recipient of the State Council Special Allowance, Professor Liu has combined academic research with long-standing involvement in national science and technology administration and international scientific cooperation.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2004, Professor Quan Lin is a distinguished Chinese physicist whose research has focused on condensed matter physics, superconductivity, and quantum materials. Born in 1940, he has pursued his research career at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), where he currently serves as Research Professor. His professional career has also included senior responsibilities in science and technology administration. He previously served as Secretary-General of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and as Deputy Leader of the Expert Advisory Group for the National 973 Programme.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2004, Professor Kenneth Young (Yang Gangkai) is a distinguished theoretical physicist whose research and professional work have focused on elementary particle physics, quantum field theory, and dissipative systems, with applications in optics, gravitational-wave physics, and other open systems. Born in 1948, he studied at the California Institute of Technology from 1965 to 1972, receiving his B.S. in Physics in 1969 and Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics in 1972. He joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 1973 and has pursued his academic career there, serving as Chairman of the Department of Physics, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Dean of the Graduate School, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, and Founding Master of C. W. Chu College. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Physics and an Honorary Fellow of CUHK. A Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1999, he has also served as Chairman of the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, a member of the University Grants Committee, and Secretary and Vice-President of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies. He currently serves as Chairman of the Council of the Shaw Prize and Vice-Chairman of its Board of Adjudicators. His honours include the Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award of CUHK.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2004, Professor Deyi Li is a distinguished Chinese scientist whose career has encompassed command automation, artificial intelligence, cognitive computing, unmanned systems, and military informatisation. Born on 28 November 1944 in Taixian, Jiangsu Province, he graduated from the Department of Radio Engineering at Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) in 1967 and received his Ph.D. from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, in 1983. He was elected a Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1999. He was conferred the rank of Major General in 1996 and subsequently served as Chief Engineer, Deputy Director, and Deputy Director of the 61st Research Institute of the General Staff Department, as well as Deputy Director of the All-Army Informatisation Work Office (2003–2007) and Deputy Director of the All-Army Informatisation Expert Advisory Committee (2005–2008). He currently serves as Research Professor and Deputy Director of the 61st Research Institute, Honorary President of the Chinese Institute of Command and Control, Dean of the School of Computer Science at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Dean of the School of Robotics at Beijing Union University.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2004, Professor Zhenghua Jiang is a distinguished Chinese demographer and systems engineer whose academic and professional career has also included extensive public service. Born in Zhejiang Province, he graduated from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1959 and began his academic career as a teaching assistant in the university’s Automatic Control Teaching and Research Section in 1958. From 1978, he served as Lecturer at the Institute of Systems Engineering and Deputy Director of the Population Research Center at Xi’an Jiaotong University. From 1980 to 1982, he pursued graduate studies at the International Institute for Population Sciences in Mumbai, India, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 2004. From 1982, he served as Director of the Institute of Population and Economics at Xi’an Jiaotong University and was appointed Professor by special approval of the State Council in 1984, becoming a doctoral supervisor in 1985. Beginning in 1991, he served as Vice Minister of the National Family Planning Commission. He also held visiting professorships at Stanford University, the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and the Indian Centre for International Economic Studies, and served as an expert for the United Nations. His public service included serving as Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Ninth and Tenth National People’s Congress, Vice Chairman of the Eighth National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and Chairman of the Central Committee of the China Democratic National Construction Association for its 12th and 13th terms. He has also held advisory and doctoral supervisory positions at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Peking University, Renmin University of China, Beijing Normal University, and other institutions, as well as concurrent professorships at Tsinghua University and Fudan

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2003, Professor Jun Chen is a distinguished Chinese geomatics scientist and an internationally recognised scholar of spatio-temporal information science, aerospace mapping, and geographic information systems. Born in October 1956, he received his graduate degree from Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping, now Wuhan University, in 1983 and began his academic career at the same institution. From 1990 to 1995, he served as Executive Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing. He subsequently held the positions of Deputy Director, Director, and Chief Engineer of the National Geomatics Center of China from 1995 to 2009. From 1997 to 2011, he served as President of the China Association of Geographic Information Systems. In 2012, he was elected President of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), becoming the first Chinese scientist to hold the position. He was elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2019 and named a Fellow of the International Science Council in 2023. He currently serves as Chief Scientist of the Moganshan Geospatial Information Laboratory, a joint initiative of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Zhejiang Province, and as Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at China University of Mining and Technology. His contributions have been recognised through the First National Award for Innovation and Excellence, the World Geospatial Information Technology Innovation Award, and the Asian Geospatial Information Lifetime Achievement Award.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2003, Professor Guitian Zhang is a distinguished Chinese rocket propulsion engineer whose research and professional work have focused on the design and development of liquid rocket engines for strategic missiles and launch vehicles. Born in December 1931 in Gaocheng, Hebei Province, he studied at the preparatory division for students bound for the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1955 and received his bachelor’s degree in liquid rocket engine technology from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1961. Returning to China that year, he joined the Fifth Academy of the Ministry of National Defence and subsequently held a series of technical and managerial positions in rocket-engine research and development, including Director and Chief Engineer of the 067 Base of the Ministry of Aerospace Industry. From 1993 to 2002, he served in senior scientific and technical positions within China’s aerospace industry and has subsequently continued to advise on aerospace propulsion technology. He was elected a Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995 and a Member of the International Academy of Astronautics in 2002. He has also served in leadership roles in the Chinese Society of Astronautics and the Xi’an Association for Science and Technology, and held professorships at Northwestern Polytechnical University, Beihang University, and the National University of Defence Technology. His honours include the National May 1 Labour Medal, the title of National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress, and the Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Prize. His career has combined liquid-propulsion research with long-term engineering leadership and the training of propulsion specialists.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2003, Professor Changchui He is a distinguished Chinese remote sensing and geographic information scientist whose career has combined geospatial science with international development, natural-resource management, and multilateral governance. Born in 1949 in Qianhua Village, Jiangjing Town, Fuqing, Fujian Province, he graduated from Fuqing No. 1 Middle School in 1968 and received his degree from the Department of Physics and Radio at Fuzhou University in 1975. He subsequently served as an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), from 1975 to 1982. In 1979, he became the first Chinese scholar to undertake government-sponsored overseas study in remote sensing, receiving his M.Sc. from the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), the Netherlands, in 1982. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University in 1994. From 1983 to 1988, he held senior positions at the State Science and Technology Commission, including Deputy Director of the Bureau of Basic Research and New Technology. In 1988, he joined the United Nations system, where he served for 25 years until his retirement in 2013. At the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), he served as Regional Remote Sensing Project Director and, from 1988 to 1998, founding Director of the Space Applications Division. He subsequently joined the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), where from 1998 to 2013 he held a succession of senior positions, including Director of the Resources and Environment Division, Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific at the rank of UN Assistant Secretary-General, and Deputy Director-General from 2009 at the rank of UN Under-Secretary-General. He was the first Chinese national