Qiu Chengtong, originally from Jiaoling County, Guangdong Province [1][2], 1949 was born in Shantou, Guangdong Province, and moved to Hong Kong with his parents in the same year. He is a Chinese-American, an internationally renowned mathematician, the first Chinese winner of the Fields Medal [3], an academician of the National Academy of Sciences, the American College of Arts and Sciences and the Academia Sinica [4], and a foreign academician of the China Academy of Sciences [5].

He is currently Professor Bowen of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences [6], Professor William Casper Graustein of Harvard University [7], Director of the Center for Mathematical Sciences in Qiu Chengtong, Tsinghua University [8], and Dean of the Yanqi Lake Institute of Applied Mathematics in Beijing [6 1].