Ph.D.supervisor, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, expert in forest management, forestry mathematician, Honorary Director of the Research Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques, Chinese Academy of Forestry.

Prof. Tang Shouzheng has been engaged in research on forest resource monitoring, forest resource management and biostatistics. In the 1970s, he developed a quantitative forest volume survey method based on remote sensing data, which proved that the average diameter of trees measured by caliper scale in all directions equals the diameter measured by the diameter tape. After the mid-1980s, he proposed uneven-aged forest transfer matrix model to predict the dynamics of large-area forest resources, and the self-thinning equation of even-aged pure forest was derived. Based on the model compatibility principle, Prof. Tang Shouzheng proposed an overall growth model of the whole forest, and the relationship between overall growth model of the whole forest and the single forest growth model was derived. He also proposed a dynamic forest resource management model and a method for quantitative evaluation on forest management.

In 1990 Prof. Tang Shouzheng was listed as one of the international mathematicians by International Mathematical Society and he was elected as an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995.