Zhaogui Qin, Member of the Academic Committee

Zhaogui Qin, male, a native of Songzi, Hubei, is a Grade II Professor; doctoral supervisor in the "Archives and Documentation Studies" direction of the first-level discipline of Chinese History; master's supervisor in Archival Science, in Philology and Documentation, and in the professional master's program in Library and Information Science; member of the Academic Committee of Hubei University; member of the Teaching Steering Committee of Hubei University; and Chair of the Teaching Steering Committee of the School of History and Culture. He is among the first group of National Archives Experts and leading talents in archival theory research named by the National Archives Administration of China. He is an Adjunct Professor at the School of History and Culture, Shandong University. He was appointed for four consecutive terms as a member of the Teaching Steering Committee for Archival Science of the State Education Commission/Ministry of Education. He is a Council Member of the Archives Society of China, a review expert for graduate education and degree (discipline) evaluation of the Ministry of Education, a review expert for archives of major instrument projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a member of the National Academic Committee on Enterprise Archives, a member of the National Committee on Basic Theory of Archival Science, a member of the China National Committee for Terms in Sciences and Technologies (Archives), Vice President of the Hubei Archives Society, Chair of the Professional Committee on Urban Construction Archives of Wuhan, and Chair of the Senior Title Review Committee for the Archives Series of the Hubei Provincial Department of Personnel. For many years he has served as a correspondence reviewer for projects and results of the National Social Science Fund of China and the Humanities and Social Sciences program of the Ministry of Education. He is an editorial board member of "Archives Science Bulletin" and an academic advisor to "Archives Management" and several other archival journals. He previously served as a Standing Member of the Professors' Committee of Hubei University, Chair of the Teaching and Research Work Committee of Hubei University, President of the Wuhan Archives Society, and head of the Hubei Key Discipline (Chinese History) and of the doctoral program in the first-level discipline of Chinese History at Hubei University, among other posts.

Academic activities: He has been invited many times by the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (later the State Administration), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Natural Science Foundation of China to serve as chief review expert for the archives of national high-technology projects and special projects for major national instruments and equipment. He has attended many expert review meetings and professional evaluations of archival management standards held by national ministries, commissions and administrations. He was invited by the National Archives Administration of China to serve as an academic commentator at the Cross-Strait Archival Academic Exchange Conference, and has been invited many times to give keynote reports at national academic conferences. He has been invited to give special lectures on archival science at the Archives Society of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, central state-owned enterprises and the state-owned assets system, well-known universities, archives administrations and archives, provincial and municipal Party schools, the urban construction system, the medical and health system, the organization and personnel system, and media groups. He attended the International Congress on Archives. He has spoken on behalf of the Chinese archival community at related international academic conferences. He was invited by relevant national ministries and commissions to teach Chinese archival culture at advanced seminars for foreign experts. He has taken part three times in writing, or was the main author of, the blue book on enterprise archives work in China, and was invited three times to attend expert consultations or related activities of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, where his opinions were highly praised and adopted by the leaders of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government.