Feng Shenhong, deputy secretary of the Leading Party Members Group of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and vice president of the CAST

Zhou Dawang, director general of the Department of Science, Technology and Informatization of the Ministry of Education

Liu Yuxin, director general of the Department IX of the Ministry of Science and Technology

Zhou Dejin, a director-general-level official from the Bureau of Academic Divisions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ni Zhiyu, director of the Science Popularization Department of the CAST