Shao Yong is Professor of College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University; Vice President of ICOMOS-CIAV; Expert member of ICOMOS-ISCEAH; Vice Secretary-General, National Committee of Historical and Cultural Cities Conservation, China Association of City Planning; Vice Director, Academic Department, Historic and Cultural Cities Committee, Chinese Society For Urban Studies. Shao Yong was was awarded the title of Foreign Member of the Académie d'Architecture.
Zhou Jian is Professor of College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University. For a long time, Zhou Jian is engaged in research, teaching, and training on urban and rural cultural heritage protection, urban renewal, and urban design. Zhou Jian has organized and participated in a number of training and research projects on risk assessment, management planning, capacity building of historical urban landscape, and heritage site of Asia-Pacific world heritage sites.