The 6th International Conference on Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Change

Guanhua Xu, Ministry of Science & Technology

Former Minister of Science and Technology and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the 16th CPC Central Committee, Minister of Science and Technology, and Secretary of the Leading Party Group. His main research area is resources remote sensing and geographical information system. During 1979 and 1981, he attended advanced studies on remote sensing science at University of Stockholm in Sweden. He served successively as assistant researcher, associate researcher, researcher and director in Chinese Academy of Forestry; Director of Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Vice President of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Vice Minister and Deputy Secretary of the Leading Party Group of the State Science and Technology Commission; Director of the Evaluation Committee for State Science and Technology Awards; Director of the Academic Committee of the Sate Key Laboratory for Resources and Environment Information System; Director of the Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory for Remote Sensing and Aerial Survey; Chief Editor of Remote Sensing Journal. Mr. XU is also an academician of the Academy of Sciences for the Third World, a foreign academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences of Sweden, and an academician of the International Academy of Space Navigation Sciences.