Fish taxonomy and evolution 

Biodiversity conservation

1982-1986: B.S. Department of Freshwater Fishery, Huazhong Agricultural University

1988-1991: M.S., Department of Ichthyology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

1995-1999: Ph.D., Department of Ichthyology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

1986-1988: Government Official of Huangshi, Hube Province, China

1991-1992: Research Assistant, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

1992-2000: Assistant Professor, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2001-2010: Associate Professor, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2011-present: Professor of Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

(1)   China's ecosystems: Overlooked species, SCIENCE, 2016 
(2)   Mitochondrial phylogeny of Chinese barred species of the cyprinid genus Acrossocheilus Oshima, 1919 (Teleostei: Cypriniformes)         and its taxonomic implications, Zootaxa, 2015
(3)   Measuring ecosystem degradation through half a century of fish species introductions and extirpations in a large isolated lake,                 Ecological Indicators, 2015
(4)   Vanmanenia maculata, a new species of hillstream loach from the Chang-Jiang Basin, South China (Teleostei: Gastromyzontidae,           Zootaxa, 2014
(5)   Molecular evidence for taxonomic status of the gudgeon genus Huigobio Fang, 1938 (Teleostei: Cypriniformes), with a description         of a new species from Guangdong Province, South China., Zootaxa, 2013
(6)   Liobagrus chenghaiensis, a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Amblycipitidae) from Yunnan, South China., Ichthyological                   Exploration of Freshwaters, 2013

(7)   Homatula laxiclathra (Teleostei: Balitoridae), a new species of nemacheiline loach from the Yellow River drainage in Shaanxi                 Province, northern China,  Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2012
(8)   Rectoris longibarbus, a new styglophic labeonine species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from South China, with a note on the taxonomy             of R. mutabilis (Lin, 1933). ,, Zootaxa, 2012

(9)   Sinigarra napoense, a new genus and species of labeonin fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Guangxi Province, South China. ,                 Zootaxa, 2012
(10)  Traccatichthys tuberculum, a new species of nemacheiline loaches from Guangdong Province, South China (Pisces: Balitoridae). ,         Zootaxa, 2012
(11)  Revision of the loach species Barbatula nuda Bleeker, 1865 (Pisces: Balitoridae) from North China, with a description of a new              species from Inner Mongolia. , Zootaxa, 2012
(12)   Acrossocheilus longipinnis, a senior synonym of Acrossocheilus stenotaeniatus Chu and Cui 1989 from the Pearl River basin,                 Zootaxa, 2012
(13)   Microphysogobio nudiventris, a new species of gudgeon (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the middle Chang-Jiang (Yangtze River)                 basin, Hubei Province, South China., Zootaxa, 2012
（14） Cophecheilus bamen, a new genus and species of labeonine fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from South China., Zootaxa, 2011
（15） Type locality and identity of the cyprinid species Acrossocheilus kreyenbergii (Regan, 1908), a senior synonym of Acrossocheilus cinctus (Lin, 1931)., Zootaxa, 2010
（16） Morphological variations in the cyprinid species Acrossocheilus hemispinus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Barbinae), with comments on its taxonomic status., Zootaxa, 2010
（17） Homatula pycnolepis, a new species of nemacheiline loach from the upper Mekong River drainage, South China (Teleostei: Balitoridae)., Ichthyological exploitation of freshwaters, 2010
（18） Onychostoma virgulatum, a new species of cyprinid fish (Pisces: Teleostei) from southern Anhui Province, South China., Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 2009
（19） Pseudobagrus fui Miao, a valid bagrid species from the Yangtze River drainage, South China (Teleostei: Bagridae)., Zootaxa, 2009
（20） Metzia longinasus, a new cyprinid species (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) from the Pearl River drainage in Guangxi Province, South China., Ichthyological Research, 2009
（21） Case 3455. Pseudobagrus Bleeker, 1858 (Osteichthyes, Siluriformes, Bagridae): pro- posed conservation., Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 2008
（22） Revision of the Labeonine Genus Sinocrossocheilus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from South China., Zootaxa, 2008
（23） Triplophysa lixianensis, a new nemacheiline loach species (Pisces: Balitoridae) from the upper Yangtze River drainage in Sichuan Province, South China., Zootaxa, 2008
（24） Description of a New Genus and two New Species of Labeonine Fishes from South China (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)., Zootaxa, 2008
（25） Triplophysa waisihani, a new species of nemacheiline loach from Northwest China (Pisces: Balitoridae)., Ichthyological Research, 2008
（26） Pseudobagrus brachyrhabdion, a new catfish (Teleostei:Bagridae) from the middle Yangtze River drainage, South China., Zootaxa , 2008