Guiyang Zhuang (Ph.D. in Economics) is the deputy director of the CASS Research Institute for Eco-civilization, a second-level researcher, a doctoral tutor at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and a recipient of the State Council’s special government allowance. He is a chief expert under major programs of the National Social Science Fund of China, having presided over many national-level and CASS’ major scientific research programs. Having long researched The Economics of Climate Change, he is a scholar in China’s social science circles who studied low-carbon economy and policy on climate change early and obtained outstanding achievements. He is one of the academic leaders for the dominant discipline construction project of The Economics of Climate Change in CASS’ “Dengfeng plan”. His research achievements won the CASS Award for excellent scientific research achievement and excellent countermeasure information. He won the title of the Second China Eco-Civilization Award for Advanced Individual in 2019.Hongchun Zhou is a researcher at the Development Research Center of the State Council and a recipient of the State Council’s special government allowance. He has studied the industries and policies relating to resources, the environment, sustainable development, etc. He graduated from Nanjing University in 1982 and obtained the doctorate in 1992. He is a visiting professor at eight universities including Nanjing University, Nankai University, and University of Science and Technology of China; an expert in circular economy at China Research Institute for Social Sciences; a visiting researcher of Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; an expert of the Circular Economy Committee of Tsinghua University, etc. His publications include Circular Economy Science and Low-carbon Economy Science. He won the special prize, first prize, and second prize of China Development Award, the second prize of Beijing People’s Government Award for Science and Technology Progress, etc.