Zhou, Haicheng

Zhou Haicheng was born in 1968 in the Wangou Forestry Bureau of Jilin Province. He relocated with family to the Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve Administration in 1980, enlisted in the military in 1985. Upon returning to civilian life in 1989, Zhou joined the Baishan Management Station of CMNRA, had the good fortune of meeting mentor Zong Zhanjiang, who introduced him to the fundamentals of plant science. In 2000, Zhou transferred to the Toudao Management Station. In 2005, he joined a long-term forest ecosystem survey and restoration initiative led by the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Zhou was appointed as a field instructor for graduate research internships at the School of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University in 2008, and since 2007, has supported Professor Zhu Weihong’s Wetland Research Center at Yanbian University with plant identification work. Between 2009 and 2017, Zhou contributed to multiple biodiversity monitoring and pest management initiatives at the Changbai Mountain Reserve, including research on the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus), larch caterpillar infestations, and the deployment of infrared camera traps for wildlife monitoring.In 2017, Zhou was invited to support species identification for Professor He Nianpeng’s research on Korean pine functional traits at Northeast Forestry University. In 2024, he was appointed as a field instructor by the Wetland Research Center at Yanbian University.