Zhuan Cao, Professor of Tsinghua University, China, is currently the Vice president and General Secretary of Chinese Society of Biotechnology, Chairman of the Committee of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology and Editor in Chief of Bioindustry technology (Chinese). He graduated from Tsinghua University majored in Engineering Physical Chemistry and has since then been working there. From 1963 to 1984 he was active in the fields of flash distillation of petroleum fraction, pyrolysis on naphthalene and catalytic reaction kinetics of petroleum fraction. In 1982-84 he visited Delaware University, after coming back to China he set up one of the first groups on biotechnology in Chinese universities. Since then he has been leading the research in many biotechnology fields in China: enzymatic technology and bioreactors; optimization of fermentation, large scale hybridoma cell culture; metabolic engineering, etc. As an advisory expert, he has served the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese National Science Foundation and the Ministry of Science and Technology, National Committee of Development and Reforming for about twenty years. Professor Cao is a very well respected educator in the biotechnology field, where now also many of his students are active academic leaders. He has published over 120 scientific papers and four books.