Professor Fosong Wang of the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences was born on May 23, 1933 in Xingning, Guangdong province. He received his B.S. degree from Wuhan University in 1955 and Ph.D. degree from the Institute of High Molecular Compounds, Leningrad, former USSR, in 1960. In 1979-1981，he was a visiting professor in the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of CNR, Italy. Since 1960, he has been working in the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and was promoted to full professor in 1983. He is a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Member of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World. He served as the Director of Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1985-1988 and Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1988-1994. He has been a Member of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, People’s Republic of China from 1993 to 2003.
    Professor Wang has been working in the field of polymer synthesis for over 50 years and has many significant accomplishments in polymer science.During the 1960s and 70s, he focused his attention in synthetic rubber, stereospecific olefin polymerization via Ziegler-Natta snd rare-earth catalysis. He pioneered the research on 1,4-cis-polybutadiene, which was the scientific foundation of the cis-butadiene rubber industry in China, and the rare-earth catalyst for isoprene rubber. Since the 1980s, Professor Fosong Wang has extended his research activities to the field of conductive polymer, such as polyacetylene and polyaniline. The innovative researches on acetylene polymerization using rare-earth catalysts and soluble polyaniline and its membrane technology have drawn extensive attention from the international polymer community. During the 1990s, he carried out a series of studies on polymer inorganic nanocomposite materials, developed a super-tough polymer alloy based on rigid particles and polymer composites. Since the 2000s, Professor Wang and his colleagues have created new rare-earth catalysts for developing copolymers of carbon dioxide with propylene oxide, which are CO2-based biodegradable polymers, and they have also developed a series of organic/polymer light-emitting materials including white-light single polymer materials, molecular dispersed tricolor polymer materials, non-doped phosphorescent materials via solution processing which have been recognized as high valuable techniques to develop high performance organic/polymer LED.
    He has published more than 350 research papers and was awarded the National Natural Science Award of China in 1982(second class), 1987(second class), 1991(third class) and 2009(second class), the National Science & Technology Progress Award in 1985(special award), the Award of Chemistry, HLHL Prize (2002) and many others. Besides, the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (SPSJ) Present him the 2001 SPSJ International Award, the SPSJ’s highest recognition of international colleagues.
    Professor Wang is the Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Journal of Polymer Science and Acta polymerica Sinica, the Editorial Board Member of Progress in polymer Science, Journal of  Macromolecular Science——Pure and Applied Chemistry and Polymer for Advanced Technologies, and the Editorial Advisory Board Member of Polymer. He served as an Executive Member of the Chinese Chemical Society for five terms and is the former President of the Polymer Division, Chinese Chemical Society (1995-2010) and the former President of Pacific Polymer Federation (1998-1999). He serves as an honorary professor of Fudan University at Shanghai and South China University of Technology at Guangzhou.