Prof. Dr. Hai-Hui Wang has been involved in fire research and associated engineering practice since 1987. He now serves as a full professor at the Department of Safety Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, and a senior researcher at the State (National) Key Laboratory of Fire Science. As a result of active participation in a number of major research projects, he has gained more than 200 publications and reports (i.e. journal articles, conference papers, invention patents and project technical reports), contributing significantly to the progress in research areas such as wildfire modelling and control, biomass flammability testing and classifications, mechanisms and kinetic modeling of spontaneous combustion of reactive materials, precise detection of fire soot and smoke, miniaturized monitoring, and alarm systems for harmful gases. His work during the period between 1989 and 1997 played an important role in the successful founding of a state key laboratory specializing in fire safety science and engineering. He was a member of the expert group sponsored by the former State Planning Commission for surveying the behaviors of “5·6” Severe Forest Fire occurring in the Great Xing’an Mountains. Through extensive study and on-site investigations in later years, he developed practical routines for mitigating forest fire occurrence at grass-roots levels, which have been demonstrated to be very effective in China in recent decades.