Sheng Lianxi, male, Han nationality, was born in Fusong, Jilin Province and is a native of Feicheng, Shandong Province. He is a member of the CPC and of the Jilin CPPCC. He graduated from the Biology Department of Jilin Normal University (now Northeast Normal University) in 1975, received a master's degree in 1988 and a doctorate degree in 2000. Between 1996 and 1997, he was visiting scholar at the University of Illinois and in 2001 he visiting researcher in the Democratic Republic of Korea and at Tokyo Polytechnic University.