Prof. Yuan Wang graduated from the Mathematics Department, Zhejiang University, China in 1952, and since then he has been with the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and was elected as an academician of the CAS in 1980. His research field is analytic number theory especially the Goldbach conjecture, Diophantine analysis, number theoretic method in numerical analysis and statistics, and has published twelve books and more than eighty papers. He is also the author of a biography of the legendary Chinese mathematician Hua Loo-Keng and many popular mathematics works. He was formerly Director of the Institute of Mathematics of the CAS and President of the Chinese Mathematical Society.