CHEN Haoyong made the decision to devote himself to the development of electrical power science while he was majoring in electrical engineering at the Xi’an Jiaotong University in the early 1990s.In 1994,his professor introduced him to Wang Xifan,a famous scholar in the field of power systems who had just returned from Japan and who was also an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.Over the following 12 years,Chen studied and worked under the BY ZHANG LI Building a Communication and Cooperation Platform for Chinese Scientists guidance and supervision of Wang.