Guo Rong, Vice President of Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development (CASTED). He has been Director of Technology and Finance Office of Venture Capital Research Institute of National Research Center of Science and Technology for Development (NRCSTD), Director of Science and Technology Investment Research Institute of CASTED, and a member of the Academy’s committee. He was the head of the Poverty Alleviation Group of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), and served temporary positions as the Standing Committee member and deputy head of the county of Yongxin County, Jiangxi Province. He has long been engaged in theoretical and policy research on government investment in science and technology, technology and finance, venture capital, and development of high&new-tech enterprises. He has presided the major project of the National Social Science Fund of China under the name of “Study on the Combination of Scientific and Technological Innovation and Financial Innovation under the Background of an Innovative Country”, and a dozen of major projects of the National Soft Science Research Program and key projects at the provincial and ministerial level.