Dr. Xia Jiang is the director and a researcher of the Institute of Lakes, Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences. She holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from Jilin University and a doctorate in soil science from the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She was a visiting scholar in Pollution Ecology at the Institute of Ecochemistry, German Research Center for Environmental Health. Her main research area is lake pollution process and control. She has presided over more than 30 national projects, including the “14th Five-Year Plan” National Key R&D Program, participated in the design of 68 lake and reservoir protection and restoration plans including the Danjiangkou Reservoir, and compiled 12 technical guidelines. She has published more than 200 papers, published seven books, obtained 67 authorized patents, and won 6 first prizes in science and technology from the Ministry of Environmental Protection. She is the executive vice-chairman and secretary general of the Water Environment Branch of the Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences and an editorial board member of the Environmental Science Research Journal.