Professor Wang Lixin is a Chair Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). He holds a Master of Arts in Literature and a PhD in History. Before joining SUSTech, he was a professor and doctoral supervisor in Comparative Literature and World Literature at the School of Literature, Nankai University. He is a recipient of the Special Government Allowance of the State Council and serves as Vice Chair of the Foreign Literature Committee of the China Association of Higher Education and Deputy Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Committee on Foreign Literature. Professor Wang studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, from 1995 to 1996 and was a visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota, USA, from 2007 to 2008. He was appointed Associate Dean of Nankai University's School of Literature in 2002 and Dean of its College of Chinese Language and Culture in June 2010. In 2019, he took on the additional role of Dean of Nankai University's School of International Education. He joined the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) at SUSTech as a Chair Professor at the Center for Social Sciences in 2022. Professor Wang has led and completed numerous research projects funded at the national, provincial, and ministerial levels. He currently serves as the chief expert for a major research project funded by the National Social Science Fund of China. At Nankai University, he taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including History of Foreign Literature, History of Western Culture, Studies in Ancient European Literature, Studies in Modern and Contemporary European and American Literature, Hebrew Literature and Culture, Christian Culture and Western Literature, and Comparative Literary Theory and Critical Practice. His major publications include Literary Studies of the Hebrew Bible in the Context of Ancient Jewish History and Culture, A Study of Ancient Israel's Historical Documents, Historical Frameworks, and Concepts of History, Exploring Hebrew and Western Literature, and Studies in the History of Modern and Contemporary European Literature and Art. He has also edited several major works, including A History of Foreign Literature (Western Volume), A History of Foreign Literature (Eastern Volume), and A Historical and Biographical Survey of European and American Literature. At SUSTech, Professor Wang teaches Hebrew Culture and Literature and Sixteen Lectures on Foreign Literary Classics.

Mr. Lan Hai holds a Master of Laws degree from the School of Sociology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Before joining SUSTech, he spent ten years working in journalism and the media industry, receiving a First Prize at the China News Award and four Guangdong Provincial Journalism Awards. He joined SUSTech in May 2010 and has since held a range of administrative and leadership positions. These have included secretarial and communications roles in the University's Party and Administrative Office, University Office, and Student Affairs Department, as well as positions as secretary of the Communist Youth League committee, student counselor, student affairs administrator, deputy Party secretary of the College of Science, and deputy director of the Party and Administrative Office. On January 3, 2025, he was appointed a member of the SUSTech Commission for Discipline Inspection and Party Secretary of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. He has received numerous awards and honors, including a medal for contributions to the fight against SARS (2003), an Outstanding Volunteer Award (2010), a Ten-Year Service Award (2020), and the titles of Outstanding Member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Outstanding Party Affairs Worker at SUSTech. In 2020, he received SUSTech's Top Ten Outstanding CPC Members Award and the May Fourth Outstanding Youth Mentor Award. In 2024, he was recognized as an Outstanding CPC Member by the Shenzhen Municipal Education Working Committee.