Due to the schedule conflict, Prof. Chua SooJin and Prof. Xingyu Jiang cannot attend the conference. Instead, Prof. Guoqiang Chen will join the conference and lead a "X-Idea Workshop".

Prof. Guoqiang Chen, born in December 1963, graduated from South China University of Technology in 1985, received his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Graz (Graz), Austria in 1989. He was admitted to Nottingham University in the UK from 1990 to 1994 and Alberta (Alber) in Canada. Ta) University is a postdoctoral researcher. In 1994, he was hired as an associate professor at Tsinghua University. In 1997, he was hired as a professor and doctoral tutor. Professor Guoqiang Chen has been engaged in the research of “microbiology and biomaterials” for a long time. He has published more than 200 papers related to microbial technology and biomaterials in international academic journals, among which Web of Sciences papers have been cited more than 8,000 times (H index is 47). He has obtained 30 patents and 40 public patents. Related development techniques have been used in several companies for the mass production of microbial plastic polyhydroxyalkanoate PHA.