A pioneer science journalist, JIA Hepeng is the founder and editor-in-chief of Science News Bi-weekly, China's first magazine targetting science community. Since June 2005, he has been working as SciDev.Net's regional coordinator for China and is responsible for the Chinese version China Gateway of SciDev.Net. He also writes for the Science magazine and UK magazine Chemistry World. In November 2006, Jia became the regional co-winner of Reuters-IUCN world awards of the environmental reporting. In April 2007, Jia was elected as the executive board member of the World Federation of Science Journalists at the fifth World Conference of Science Journalists in Melbourne. He is also an active member of the Chinese Society of Science and Technology Journalism (CSSTJ) and the founding director of China Science Reporting Network. He is the author of the book Science Communication in An Era of Globalisation (China Popular Science Press 007) and the translator of political science masterpiece The Ruling Class (Nanjing: Yilin Press 2002). Jia is also the writer of many science journalism papers presented to top levels of international science journalism/science communication meetings.