1 Prof Wang Zhongjing, Water Resources Development and Management of Watershed

Prof. Zhongjing Wang graduated in 1984 and earned his PhD in 1999 in Tsinghua University after worked 15 years in industry on the field of water resources planning application research and irrigation experiment. His major are water resources planning and management, river basin governance, hydrology model, remote sensing hydrology, and hydro-environmental history. His newly research target is the Internet of Water.

In the past 30 years, Dr. Wang and his team mainly focus on problem driven researches. They were involved many important national level water resources related plan and fundamental research, such as the program of State key science & technology, national natural science foundation of China, Chinese academy of science and Chinese academy of Engineering. He was in charge of two river basin restoration plans in northwest of China. These two plans were approved by State Council with a large investment. The plans are implemented and get great successes already which are considered the flags of river basin restoration and governance in inland dry basins. His team was also involved in the demonstration of the South to North Water Diversion plan and mainly focused on the interaction between water constrains and economic development quantitatively. The coming presentation is partly from that report.

Prof. Wang has awarded two national lever and eight provincial level prizes by his contribution to science and technology researches. His is one of the leading talents of Gansu Province and was one of the youth outstanding talents of Ministry of China. He has published more than 160 papers and 6 books. He is the vice dean of School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, and the deputy director of State Key Laboratory of Hydro science and Engineering, China.

2 Dr. You Jinjun, Water Resources Allocation and Assessment on Watershed

Dr. Jinjun You is a Senior Professor of Department of Water Resources Research, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydro-power Research (IWHR), Executive Committee Member of China Chapter of IAHR, and Member of IAHS. Dr. You obtained his PhD of hydrology and water resources engineering in 2005 under supervision of distinguished academician Dr. Wanghao, and finished his Post-Doctor study in Tsinghua University in 2007. Dr. You has been dedicated in research on water resources system simulation, water allocation and hydraulic projects operation, participated a series of application work related to water resources planning and management, and published dozes of papers and monographies based on the research.

3 Prof Zhang Guanghui, Assessment of Runoff and Sediment Yielding on Watershed

Dr. Guanghui Zhang is a professor at School of Geography, Beijing Normal University. He teaches hydrology and researches on soil erosion, mainly focus on soil detachment by overland flow, sediment transport capacity on steep slopes, and the feedback relationship between sediment transport and soil detachment. At present, his research mainly focus on the potential effects of the changes in near soil surface characteristics driven by farmland abandonment on soil erosion processes in the Loess Plateau of China. He is the editorial board of International Soil and Water Conservation Research, Chinese Society of Soil and Water Conservation, and Bulletin of Soil and Water Conservation. Dr. Zhang has published 135 papers and 46 of them were cited by SCI system. His paper has been cited more than 2500 times.

4 Prof. Li Rui, Overview of Soil and Water Conservation

Prof. Rui Li is a research professor of Institute of Soil and Water conservation, CAS\MWR and NWUAF. He is the president of World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (WASWAC), taking the position of Chief Editor of International Soil and Water Conservation Research.

His main research fields include regional soil and water conservation and environment, land resources evaluation, land-use planning, monitoring of soil and water loss using remote sensing and GIS technologies.

He graduated from Department of Biology, Lanzhou University in 1970, further study in Geography Department of Northwest University 1983-1984, advanced study and work in CSIRO, Australia 1984-1986. Since 1972, he has been involved in research on SWC in the Institute of Soil and Water Conservation (ISWC) MWR and finished more than 30 projects as the leader or member. 1994-2001 was the deputy director and 2002-2006 as the director of ISWC.

Since 1972 he has been involved in research on soil and water conservation planning, land resources investigation and monitoring of soil erosion using remote sensing, and made research achievements and contribution to regional soil and water conservation, application of remote sensing and GIS. Main fields include: (1) Planning and evaluation of comprehensive control of soil erosion at small watershed scale; (2) Digital remote sensed image processing and extraction of soil erosion factors; (3) Theory and methods of regional investigation of soil and water loss; (4) Evaluation of regional impacts of soil and water conservation on environment. There are 12 projects had been awarded by the provincial and national governments.

He has more than 120 papers published on the journals and international conferences and 12 books published as the chief editor or co-editor.

5 Prof Zhou Shichun, Hydropower Development and Planning

6 Prof Ning Duihu, Brief Introduction on Soil and Water Conservation in China