Autor: Weidong Liu

LENG, Shuying, division head of geography, department of earth sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China （NSFC), also vice president of the 11th council of the Geographical Society of China. She received a bachelor’s degree in Geography from Peking University in 1987, and a master’s degree and Ph.D from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1990 and 2001, separately. She has published more than 60 research articles. Since 1999 when she engaged in project management in NSFC, Shuying has published 42 articles on the strategic research on the development of Chinese Geographical Sciences and project management as the first author. Up to November, 2015, her articles have been cited more than 980 times by CNKI (China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database)-indexed papers and downloaded more than 16 thousand times. She has proposed “Directions and Key Words of Geography and Related Fieldsof the National Natural Science Foundation of China”, which is now an important guidance for project application and peer review of NSFC geography projects. She has been recruited to the “National one million talents” project in 2013 and awarded the “National Middle-aged and Young Experts having Outstanding Contributions” by Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of China. In 2014, she was awarded “the Sixth National Excellent Science and Technology Workers”, by China Association for Science and Technology.