LU Dadao is a well-known economic geographer, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was born in October of 1940 in Tongcheng County of Anhui Province and graduated from Geology and Geography Department of Peking University in 1963. He has visited the former Federal Republic of Germany in the 1980s and 1990s as a visiting scholar, cooperative researcher, and visiting professor. He was the director of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, and is the researcher of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, and Honorary chairman of the Geographical Society of China.