Ph.D. supervisor, Chief Scientist of the Chinese Academy of Forestry, expert in forest protection and biological control, Director of the Key Laboratory of Forest Conservation of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.

Prof. Yang Zhongqi once served as the Director of the Academic Committee of the Research Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, the Chinese Academy of Forestry.

Prof. Yang Zhongqi won theScientific Achievement Awardof theInternational Union of Forest Research Organizationsin 1995 and has obtained more than 10 prizes on science and technology at national, provincial and ministerial levels. He has published more than 280academicpapers, five monographs and one translation book. He has obtained eight national invention patents anddescribed325 new species ofparasitic wasps for biological control.