Chen Xianhong serves as a counselor for the Wuhan Municipal Government and is an honored member of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). She holds the prestigious title of "Huazhong Distinguished Scholar" and serves as a specially appointed professor, second-rank professor, and doctoral supervisor at the School of Journalism and Information Communication, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). She is the founding director of the China Story Creativity and Communication Research Institute (a joint initiative between the China International Publishing Group and HUST) and vice president of the Chinese Association for History of Journalism and Mass Communication. Furthermore, she chaired the Public Relations Professional Committee of the association for its inaugural and second terms. Her research encompasses international communication of Chinese stories, public relations and strategic communication, new media and brand communication, among various other areas. She has spearheaded one major bidding project under the Ministry of, second-rank professor, and doctoral supervisor at the School of Journalism and Information Communication, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). Education's Key Research Initiatives, two National Social Science Fund projects, and approximately 20 provincial and ministerial-level commissioned research projects. Having published over 100 academic papers and authored more than 20 books and textbooks, her notable works include The Ecology of Public Relations , The Imagination of Public Relations: Perspectives, Theories, and Methods , and Meta-Narrative Communication Strategies for Telling China's Stories Well . Her translated works include Handbook of Strategic Communication and Excellence in Communication . She is recognized as a highly cited author in the research fields of 'telling China's stories well' and 'public relations', having made significant scholarly contributions to these disciplines.

DU, Peng is the former Vice President of Renmin University of China, Dean of the School of Population and Health, Director of the Institute for Healthy China, Director of the Institute of Gerontology, and Professor at Renmin University of China. He is a Member of the Expert Committee of the National Working Commission on Aging, Vice President of the China Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, and Vice President of the China Population Association.

Main research areas: Population aging, aging policy, population and development.

Main Publications: Retrospect and Prospect: Studies on Chinese Elderly Care (2016), Chinese Population in the New Century: Analysis on the 5th National Demographic Census (co-author, 2011), and Aging Issues and Policies in EU (2000) .

Dai Yonghong is a National Leading Talent in Shenzhen, a Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Shenzhen University (SZU), serving as Dean of the School of Foreign Languages, Director of the Institute for Regional and International Communication Studies, Director of the Center for Chinese Overseas Interests, and Director of the Bay of Bengal Regional Studies Institute. He is the Chief Expert of major projects funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Education’s Key Research Base Projects. He holds prominent academic positions, including Vice President of the Chinese Association for Indian Ocean Studies, Deputy Director of the National Alliance for Regional and Country Studies Talent Development and Discipline Construction, Vice President of the Greater Bay Area European Studies Association, and Executive Council Member of the Chinese Association for South Asian Studies. He also serves as an Academic Committee Member of the China South Asian Studies Center at Sichuan University (a national high-end think tank), a Part-time Professor at the South Asian Institute of Sichuan University (SCU), a Guest Professor at the National Governance Research Institute of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and a Visiting Professor at the Swedish Institute for Security and Development Policy.

With a long-standing focus on international relations, regional and country studies, and the world economy, his current research and teaching areas primarily include regional and country studies (international politics and global strategy), world economy (international trade and energy cooperation), and international communication (strategic and global communication). He has authored 10 academic monographs, contributed to 10 edited volumes, and published over 100 scholarly articles. He has led two major projects of the National Social Science Foundation, two general projects of the National Social Science Foundation, one major project of the Ministry of Education’s Key Research Base, and more than 10 provincial and ministerial-level research projects. His academic achievements have been recognized with two Second Prizes for Outstanding Achievements in Humanities and Social Sciences from the Ministry of Education (in international studies), the Second Prize of the Guangdong Provincial Social Science Awards, the First Prize of the Shenzhen Social Science Awards, and the Third Prize of the Sichuan Provincial Social Science Awards.

Ding Anqi is a Professor at the International College of Chinese Studies, East China Normal University (ECNU), where she serves as Associate Dean and Deputy Director of the International Chinese Language Teacher Training and Research Base. She holds key academic leadership roles, such as Vice Chair of the Standards and Certification Committee of the International Society for Chinese Language Teaching (ISCLT) and Vice President of the International Chinese Language Promotion Branch of the Chinese Language Modernization Society. Additionally, she is a council member of the Shanghai Language Society. Her primary research focuses on international Chinese language education and teacher training in this field. She has published nearly 100 academic papers in prestigious journals such as Chinese Teaching in the World, Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies, Applied Linguistics, and Foreign Language World, in addition to authoring or editing over 20 monographs, compilations, and textbooks. She has led the development of key pedagogical frameworks, including the General International Chinese Curriculum Guidelines (Primary and Secondary Education) and the General International Chinese Curriculum Guidelines (Higher and Adult Education) . As a core contributor, she participated in formulating the Professional Standards for International Chinese Language Teachers and spearheaded the creation of Chinese language curriculum standards for primary and secondary schools in South Africa and Tanzania.

Li Ding is an associate professor at the School of Sociology, Renmin University of China (RUC). He also serves as the deputy director of the Fieldwork Education Center at RUC. His main research directions include urbanization, youth development issues in the context of digitization, and urban governance issues.

He is the author of the book Peasant Life Chances in China: Occupation Change and Citizenship Acquiring since 1970 . He has also published multiple academic papers in CSSCI core journals such as Population Research , Chinese Journal of Population Science , Society , Youth Studies , and Open Times .

Donald Sturgeon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University, UK, and the founder of the Chinese Text Project (https://ctext.org). His primary research interests include natural language processing for classical Chinese, digital libraries, and applying computational methods to studyancient Chinese language, literature, and history.

Duola is a professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at Qinghai Normal University (QHNU), a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor appointed by the Ministry of Education. He has been selected as a national candidate for the "Million Talents Program" and honored with the title of "Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Expert" by the national government. He has long been engaged in teaching and research in the fields of linguistics and applied linguistics (computational linguistics), Tibetan information processing, and ethnic minority languages.

Additionally, he concurrently serves as the technical director of the YunZang search engine, a member of the Tibetan Information Standards Working Group of the National Informatization Standards Committee, an executive director of the Ethnic Language and Writing Information Professional Committee of the China Chinese Information Processing Society, and a council member of the Language Resources Professional Committee of the China Modern Language Association.

Cord Eberspaecher is an adjunct professor at the Department of Sinology at the University of Bonn and frequently gives lectures on China for the general public and various public and private organisations and institutions.

His research focuses on modern Chinese history in global perspective, especially Sino-German relations; in addition, he is an expert in naval and military history and Western images of China from Early Modern Times to the present. Besides his work in academia, he is active in the field of educational exchange between Germany and China and dual training system.

Major publications include Knowledge Exchange and Modernization Processes between Europe, China and Japan, China's Imperial Wars, etc.

Bankuwiha Etienne, a Ph.D. candidate at Nanjing University, serves as Deputy Secretary General of China-Burundi Friendship Association, President of Burundi Chinese Translators Association, and is a researcher at the African Great Lakes Region Research Center of Zhejiang Yuexiu University. He worked on international Chinese education at the University of Burundi for three and a half years.

His main research areas include Sino-African comparative literature and cross-cultural studies, international Chinese education and Confucius Institute research.

Representative worksinclude the monograph La Mission de l’ Institut Confucius en Afriqueand the bilingual (Chinese-French) textbook I Love Learning Chinese—J’ aime Apprendre la Langue Chinoise, among others.

Dr. Max Jakob Fölster is a Sinologist and historian who earned his doctorate from the University of Hamburg with a study on the imperial library of the Former Han dynasty and the origins of philology in China. He has held research positions at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg, the China Branch Office of the Max Weber Foundation, and the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. His research interests encompass the history of Chinese book culture, libraries, and textual traditions, as well as the history of Sino-German cultural and academic exchanges.

Feng Huiling is the former Executive Vice President of Renmin University of China and currently Director of the Digital Humanities Research Institute. She has served as: Convener of the Library, Information, and Archives Management Discipline Evaluation Group under the Seventh Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council; member of the Social Science Committee of the Ministry of Education; Director of the National Expert Committee on Electronic Records Management. Her notable honors includebeing twice recognized as an Outstanding Teacher of Beijing and receiving the State Council Special Government Allowance and obtaining Renmin University’s"Dahua Outstanding Contribution Award".

Research Areas: Archival Science Theory, Electronic Records Management, Digital Memory, Digital Humanities.

Representative Works: Development and Policies of China's Information Resource Industry, Theory, Policy, and Practice of Social Construction, among others.

Dario Famularo obtained a doctoral degree from the School of Philosophy at Fudan University. Currently, he holds a position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Belt and Road Institute, Beijing Language and Culture University.

Fu Xiaoxing is a professor and ‌Vice Dean‌ (Acting Dean) at the School of Sociology, Renmin University of China (RUC). Her research focuses on visual anthropology, action ethnography, medical anthropology, and studies on gay male communities. Her notable publications include From Action to Action Ethnography: A Study on Youth Volunteerism and Space, Culture, and Performance: An Anthropological Study of Gay Men in City A, Northeast China. Her anthropological films include No Rest of Life: Uncle Shen and The Story of "Fruit": Exploring Indigenous Models of Volunteer Service.

GU Jun received his Ph.D. from Peking University and now is professor of comparative literature and cross-cultural studies at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He is the author of A Critical Biography of S. W. Williams（2023）, The First Group of American Students in Beijing (2015) and about 70 articles.

Prof. Dr. Giray Fidan is a Turkish Sinologist, translator and scholar specializing in Chinese history and Turkish-Chinese relations. Currently a Full Professor at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University, he serves as Head of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature and the Department of Eastern Languages and Literatures.

His contributions to cultural exchange were recognized through two major honors: selection as one of the “Top 10 Outstanding Contributing Scholars” by theWorld Sinology Center at Beijing Language and Culture University in 2024, and receipt of the Young Achievement Award at the 10th Chinese Book Special Contribution Award ceremony.

His translation work has been particularly impactful in bringing Chinese and Turkishcultures,introducing seminal Chinese classics to Turkish readership. Notable translations under his pen include Sun Wu's The Art of War (《孙子兵法》) , Confucius' The Analects of Confucius (《论语》) and Lao She' s Cat Country (老舍《猫城记》).

Feyza Gorez is an assistant professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Erciyes University, holding a Ph.D. in Sinology from Ankara University. She serves as a founding board member of the Interdisciplinary Asian Studies Program at the same institution and was a founding organizer of the the International Symposium on Asian Languages and Literatures (ADES), a biennial conference series established in 2011. In November 2023, she was appointed as a Youth Committee Member of the World Conference on Sinology.

Her research focus on Chinese language, literary studies and cultureanalysis. Her academic works include papers and book chapters on the Chinese language, literature and culture. Her scholarly contributions have been presented at various national and international conferences specializing in Chinese and Asian studies.

Hong Tao is currently the Assistant to the General Manager of Zhonghua Book Company, General Manager of Gulian (Beijing) Digital Media Technology Co., Ltd., where he holds the position of Senior Editor. He also serves as the head of the Key Laboratory of Ancient Books Digitization and Knowledge Engineering, a science and technology and standards key laboratory in the publishing industry under the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, as well as the head of the Digital Literature Branch of the Chinese Historical Documents Research Society.

He has long been engaged in research and publication work related to the digitization of ancient books. He has presided over numerous national key digitization planning projects for ancient books, including the "Fundamental Historical Records of China Knowledge Base"—a key electronic publication project under the 12th Five-Year Plan, Package 16 of the "Chinese Database Project"—a major cultural industry promotion project under the 12th Five-Year Plan; and the "Resource Platform for the Collation and Publication of Ancient Chinese Books," a key electronic publication project under the 13th Five-Year Plan.

Additionally, he presided over "General Resource Database of Chinese Sinology," a listed fund-raising project of China Publishing Group, and served as the person in charge of the construction and operation of the national platform system for digitizing resources of ancient books. Due to his outstanding contributions, Hong Tao was selected for the "2022 Publishing Convergence Development Talent Cultivation Program" by the National Radio and Television Administration.

HU Heng is currently the Director and professor of the Institute of Qing History at Renmin University of China (RUC), as the Deputy Director of the University's Research Office, and the Vice President of the Institute of Digital Humanities. In these fields, he has conducted in-depth research and explorations (Note: The original text had "mathematics," which is presumed to be a typographical error and corrected to "explorations" or "research" here for clarity). He presided over the construction of the “Digital Qing History Laboratory” (a data-sharing platform for Qing history).. His representative works include Imperial Power Not Reach ing the Counties? —County- administered Administrative Regions and Grassroots Social Governance in the Qing Dynasty , Administrative Governance in Marginal Areas—A Re-examination of the Prefecture System in the Qing Dynasty and the co-authored volume A Hundred Years of Qing History Studies: Historical Geography Volume . In addition, he has published more than 40 academic papers in journals such as Historical Research , Modern Chinese History Studies , Qing History Journal , and Literature and History .

HU Jing is a scholar of Korean social historian and digital humanities scholar, currently serving as a Postdoctoral Researcher at KU Leuven, Belgium. She also holds the role of ‌Subject Expert in Korean Studies‌ at the Berlin State Library, Germany. Sheearned her Ph.D. from Leiden University (LU) in the Netherlands, with her research primarily focusing on Korean social history‌, —especially ‌marginalized social groups‌—and the integration of ‌digital humanities‌ methodologies in historical analysis.

Huang Biyun is currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education, City University of Macau. She holds a Ph.D. in Education Information and Technology from the University of Hong Kong and served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her primary research interests include STEM education, AI application in education, gamified learning, technology-enhanced pedagogy, innovative talent cultivation, and teacher professional development.

She has received prestigious awards, such as the Most Innovative Poster Award from the World Education Research Association (WERA) and Best Presentation at the International Conference on Education and Information Technology (ICEIT). She has led or participated in major research projects, including: “Hong Kong Jockey Club Community Care and Creative Action Project Program” and “Effective Use of Gamification in Higher Education Curriculum: Design and Evaluation of Higher Education Courses Based on the GAFCC Theoretical Framework". With over forty academic articles published in ‌Q1 SSCI journals‌ and international conferences, her contributions significantly advance interdisciplinary research in educational technology and pedagogy.