Professor Xiao Mingqing is Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is also the Chief Expert of the China Railway Construction Corporation, Chief Engineer of theChina Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group Co. Ltd,and Director of the National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Underwater Tunneling Technology. His research interests include the design and technical research and development of tunnel and underground engineering. As a major pioneer of tunnelling in China, he has led the design of more than 70 underwater tunnel, such as the Nanjing Yangtze River Tunnel, Wuhan Yangtze River Tunnel and Shiziyang Tunnel of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-speed Railway