Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2003, Professor Renzhong Guo is a distinguished Chinese geomatics scientist whose research has made significant contributions to geographic information systems, spatial analysis, and urban geoinformatics. Born in 1956, he received his B.S. in Cartography from the former Wuhan College of Surveying and Mapping, now Wuhan University, in 1982 and his M.S. in Cartography from the same institution in 1984. He was elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2013. He currently serves as Director of the Smart City Research Institute and Professor at Shenzhen University, where his work continues to focus on the development and application of geographic information technologies to urban and land-resource management.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2003, Professor Guangtao Wang is a distinguished Chinese civil engineer and urban planner whose professional career has encompassed urban construction, urban planning, housing policy, and environmental governance. Born in June 1943 in Shanghai, with ancestral roots in Xiuning, Anhui Province, he graduated from the Department of Urban Construction at Tongji University in July 1965 and received his M.Eng. in Road and Bridge Engineering from the same university in 1981. He joined the Communist Party of China in December 1983 and was elected to the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He served as Minister of Construction and subsequently as Chairman of the Environment and Resources Protection Committee of the 11th National People’s Congress. He has also held a number of academic and professional positions in urban development and related fields. Professor Wang currently serves as Secretary-General of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (Beijing), as well as Adjunct Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Tsinghua University, Tongji University, and Beijing University of Technology, and Honorary Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2003, Professor Shida Liu is a distinguished Chinese atmospheric scientist and fluid dynamicist whose research has focused on nonlinear atmospheric dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, and turbulence. Born in April 1938, he graduated from the Department of Geophysics, Peking University, in 1962 and has pursued his academic career at Peking University, where he served as Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and Chairman of the Department of Geophysics. He also served two consecutive terms as Vice President of the Chinese Meteorological Society. His research has centred on the mathematical physics of nonlinear wave equations, vortex dynamics, and the application of fractal theory to atmospheric phenomena. He developed the Jacobi elliptic function expansion method for solving nonlinear wave equations, which received the First Prize of the Chinese Physical Society’s Most Influential Paper Award in 2012. His research in nonlinear atmospheric dynamics was recognised with the First Prize of the State Education Commission’s Science and Technology Progress Award in 1990 and the Third Prize of the National Natural Science Award in 1991.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2003, Professor Shu Tao is a distinguished Chinese environmental scientist whose research and professional work have focused on the emission, transport, fate, and effects of trace toxic pollutants at regional and global scales. Born in 1950 in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, he graduated from the Department of Geology and Geography at Peking University in 1977 and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Kansas, USA, in 1981 and 1984, respectively. He was elected a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. From 1984 to 2020, he pursued his academic career at Peking University and currently serves as Chair Professor at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology. He was selected for the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 1995 and led an Innovative Research Group supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2000. He has led research projects supported by the NSFC at general, key, major, and major international cooperation levels, as well as programmes funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. He also serves as a member of the National Environmental and Ecological Consultative Committee and the National Environmental and Health Expert Consultative Committee, Associate Editor of Environmental Science & Technology, and an editorial board member of several Chinese and international journals.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2003, Professor Ansong Geng is a distinguished Chinese organic geochemist whose research has made significant contributions to loess geochemistry, Quaternary palaeoclimate change, and the genesis of coal-derived hydrocarbons. Born in China, he received his degree in Mineral Geology Prospecting and Exploration from Hefei University of Technology in 1982 and subsequently completed his Ph.D. He has pursued his academic career at the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), where he currently serves as Research Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry. He previously served as Deputy Director and Discipline Inspection Secretary of the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, as well as President and Party Secretary of the Guangzhou Branch of CAS and the Guangdong Academy of Sciences. He was also a Member of the Eighth and Ninth Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. His scientific contributions have been recognised through the First CAS President’s Scholarship Excellence Award (1989), the First Guangdong Provincial Outstanding Young Scientist Award (1997), and the CAS Outstanding Young and Middle-Aged Expert Award (1998).

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2003, Professor Luguang Yan is a distinguished Chinese electrical engineer whose research and professional work have focused on special electrical equipment for scientific experimentation, pulsed power, applied superconductivity, and emerging energy technologies. Born in July 1935 in Beijing, with ancestral roots in Dongyang, Zhejiang Province, he studied electrical engineering at Tsinghua University before graduating with honours from the Power Engineering Department of the Moscow Power Institute in 1959. He subsequently joined the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he spent his research career and led groups working on inductive energy storage, fusion electrical engineering, and engineering superconducting magnets. He served as Director of the Institute from 1988 to 1999 and subsequently as Chairman of its Academic Committee, and also headed the Department of Technological Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 1999 to 2004, he served as President of Ningbo University and is now its Honorary President. A Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1991, he was elected a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1992 and a Member of TWAS in 2000. He has also served on the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and in a number of academic and professional organisations, including the Chinese Society for Solar Energy. His career has encompassed electrical engineering research, scientific-institution leadership, energy strategy, and higher education.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2003, Professor Wenkui Wang is a distinguished Chinese materials scientist whose research and professional work have focused on materials under extreme conditions, bulk metallic glasses, and cross-scale mechanics. Born in March 1937 in Liaoning Province, China, he graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1960 and received his Doctor of Engineering from Tohoku University, Japan, in 1982. He subsequently conducted research at Harvard University from 1983 to 1985 and from 1991 to 1992. He currently serves as Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Yanshan University and Research Professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has been recognised as a National Model Teacher and selected as one of the inaugural Yanzhao Scholars of Hebei Province. His professional service has included membership of the international editorial board of Crystal Research and Technology and the Chinese National Committee for COSPAR. He also serves as Director of the IEAS Innovation Institute for Cross-scale Mechanical Design and Manufacturing in Laixi, Qingdao, affiliated with the IEAS China Science Center.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2003, Professor Ershun Zhong is a Chinese expert in geographic information technology whose research and professional work have focused on geographic information systems (GIS), the development of foundational GIS software, and the industrialisation of domestic GIS technologies. Born in Ningxiang, Hunan Province, in March 1956, he received his bachelor’s degree from the Department of Geology of Sun Yat-sen University in 1982, conducted research on marine environmental engineering as a visiting scholar at Western Washington University in 1986, and earned a doctorate in remote sensing and GIS from Peking University in 1991. He subsequently carried out postdoctoral research at the State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information Systems of the Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, from 1992 to 1994, before joining the Institute, now the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, where he is Research Professor and Doctoral Supervisor and directs the Centre for the Development of the Geographic Information Industry. In 1997, he founded Beijing SuperMap Geographic Information Technology Company, now SuperMap Software Co., Ltd., and led the development and industrialisation of the SuperMap GIS software platform. The platform has been applied in surveying and mapping, land and natural resources, digital cities, water conservancy, transportation, energy, finance, and other fields, with applications extending beyond China. Professor Zhong has served as Vice President of the China Association for Geographic Information Society, Chairman of the Commission on Cartography and GIS of the Geographical Society of China, and President of the Eurasian Association for System Sciences. He has also undertaken international teaching and training in GIS and remote sensing in Asia and lectured at universities in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His honours i

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2003, Professor Huisheng Chi is a distinguished Chinese signal-processing scientist, with pioneering contributions to artificial neural networks, auditory information processing, and intelligent information systems. Born on 31 May 1941 in Beijing, he entered the Department of Physics and the Department of Radioelectronics at Peking University in 1958 and graduated in 1964. He has pursued his academic career at Peking University, progressing through a series of academic and administrative positions, including Head of a Teaching and Research Section, Deputy Director and Director of the Information Science Center, Deputy Director and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Machine Perception, and Executive Vice President of the University. From 1980 to 1982, he conducted visiting research at the Communications Research Centre of the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, where he participated in a NASA–Canada Department of Communications feasibility study on mobile satellite communications. He currently serves as Professor at the School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University, and as a member of the editorial boards of journals including Acta Electronica Sinica and Chinese Journal of Electronics. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Governor of the International Neural Network Society (INNS), and received the INNS Neural Network Leadership Award in 1994 and 1995.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2001, Professor Jiyang Wang is a distinguished Chinese geologist and hydrogeologist whose research and professional work have focused on geothermal hydrogeology and the exploration and utilisation of geothermal resources. Born in 1935, he was elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995 and Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2001. He currently serves as a Research Professor at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His academic career has centred on the study of geothermal systems in China and on the development of scientific approaches for their exploration, assessment, and sustainable utilisation.