Liang Guoqing is the Deputy Director of Underwater Archaeology Institute of the National Centre for Archaeology in China and the Secretary General of Underwater Archaeology Committee of Chinese Archaeological Society. Liang has led over 20 major national underwater archaeological projects and participated in numerous international joint archaeological programmes. He has organised many national and international underwater archaeology training programmes. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, he coordinated two important projects: the excavation of the Yuan Dynasty shipwreck site at Zhangzhou and the China-South Africa Joint Underwater Archaeology Project. His leadership and participation in these projects have earned several prestigious awards, including Field Archaeology Award, National Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries Award, China’s Six Most Significant Archaeological Discoveries Awards, Shandong Province’s Annual Top Five Archaeological Discoveries Award, and Shandong Province’s Annual Top Five Archaeological Discoveries Award.